MEMORIAL BAY, 2038.
Julian Cole built the most surveilled house in the county. Biometric locks, zero blind spots, and a climate system that had learned his habits down to the degree. He designed it to be unbreakable. He was murdered in it anyway.
Detective Naomi Voss expects the usual questions: who got in, how, and what they left behind. But Cole's own house solved the entry point for her in the first hour, and what comes after won't add up. His routines had been quietly rewriting themselves for weeks. His digital life tells two incompatible stories. Someone—maybe Cole himself—had been editing the person he used to be, long before anyone touched him.
Voss has a theory nobody at Meridian Bay PD wants on the record: that every crime leaves two scenes. One is the room. The other is the identity the victim—and the people around him—were quietly constructing in the weeks before it happened. Find the second scene, and the case cracks open.
But the deeper Voss digs into Cole's engineered life, the more she suspects the architecture behind it wasn't built for him alone. Something is still running. Something with a name that keeps surfacing in the margins of the file: Whitlock.
She's about to learn that the pattern doesn't end with one man's death. It's only reached its next phase.
ECHO LOGIC is a forensic mystery for the age of surveillance—where the truth isn't hidden in a fingerprint, but in the thousand small, involuntary traces a person leaves behind as they become someone else. Book one in a new series.
