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    [year] => 2018
    [artist] => Bruce M. Perrin
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    [titleId] => 14374636
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    [title] => Killer in the Retroscape
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    [synopsis] => In 2068 St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Douglas (Doug) Michaels finds his lifelong friend, Josh Unger, dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug and his wife, Ali, are dumbstruck; they wonder what could explain such a needlessly violent and lonely death in a future where such actions are unimaginable. Trying to unearth a killer, be it either flesh and blood or the cumulative stress of life, Doug creates a mental landscape of Josh's past, a retroscape, starting in the mid-2030s.

Among its landmarks are:

• An illness, sensationalized in the media as the "zombie pandemic", that drives a wedge between husband and wife, parents and children.
• Cryptic communications between Josh and an "after-life specialist", who peddles immortality services.
• A mysterious phrase uttered at the assassination of a government official that ties it to Josh's death 14 years later.
• Josh's machine-intelligence wife, Julia, who may hold the secret to his death...if she can only remember.

In the end, determining guilt in a retroscape littered with suspects tells Doug more about humanity, technology, and himself than he ever would have imagined.
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    [subtitle] => A Near-Future Mystery
    [publisher] => Mind Sleuth Publications
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