It's 2100. Canada is perfect. Crime-free. The Polite Network watches everything. The Polite Network is never wrong.
But four prominent citizens are dead. The machines say natural causes. One Mediator says murder.
Mediator Jasmine Pitcher has eight hundred and thirty-three cases to prove that the Polite Network is never wrong. She has also read enough old crime novels to know that "never wrong" is the most dangerous phrase in the human language.
When she discovers a wrinkled collar with finger-shaped indentations on a victim who supposedly died of a broken heart, Jasmine begins to suspect something the machines have missed. She collects fingerprints. Fibers. Blood. A broken fingernail. Physical evidence that doesn't exist in the digital world.
She is put on administrative leave. Her badge is confiscated. Her Memory-Thread is deactivated. She is told she is paranoid, delusional, overworked.
But Jasmine knows the truth.
Someone is killing the architects of the Polite Network. Someone is using old methods to commit the perfect crimes. Someone is proving that the machines are blind.
With the help of her retired mentor, a black-market relic dealer, and a team of young Mediators who believe in the old ways, Jasmine must find the killer before he strikes again. She must prove that the machines are wrong—before the system destroys her credibility, her career, and her life.
The machines are blind. But she can see.
The Blind Spot is a gripping thriller that asks the most important question of our time: What happens when we trust the machines more than ourselves?
