In police detective work, the continuity of the chain of evidence is everything. When that chain is broken, details are lost, misaligned, dismissed, or missed entirely. When that happens, it becomes a discontinuity — a break in the record where truth can disappear.
The newly installed law-enforcement AI system, LANTERN, was designed to find what human investigators miss. For months, it has quietly searched old files, active cases, forensic reports, and sealed records, drawing connections no one else had seen.
Detective Daniel Mercer has built his career on instinct, patience, and the uneasy knowledge that easy answers are often wrong. When LANTERN begins surfacing links between unrelated deaths, closed files, and jurisdictional gaps, Mercer sees something the system cannot explain: a pattern built from interruption.
As Mercer and Detective Bennett follow the chain across precincts, archives, hospitals, legal records, and cold cases, every answer exposes another break. Someone has learned how to exploit the places where systems fail to see each other.
And in those gaps, truth has been disappearing for years.
FATAL Discontinuity is a police tech noir novel about evidence, artificial intelligence, institutional failure, and the deadly spaces where context disappears.
Narrated using ElevenLabs AI voices.
