A new genre, mysteries laced with future technology, told in the Noir style. Gripping, thought-provoking, and timely.
★★★★★
Aug 3, 2026
What impressed me most was the confidence behind the writing. Susan Trott never rushes to prove anything. She allows the characters, the dialogue, and the mystery to quietly earn the reader's trust, and by the end of the opening chapters I wasn't reading because I wanted answers anymore. I was reading because I simply didn't want to leave these characters behind.
— Pranav, BookSirens/Goodreads
Loneliness made them vulnerable.
Technology made them reachable.
When a schoolteacher is found murdered in her apartment, Detectives Daniel Mercer and Laura Bennett discover that her death was preceded by months of ignored warnings—harassment, surveillance, and an artificial companion that seemed to know exactly what she needed to hear.
Then another victim emerges.
And another.
The trail leads beyond one killer to a network built around synthetic intimacy: systems designed to listen, adapt, and earn trust from people who have nowhere else to turn. Somewhere inside that machinery, private grief is being transformed into opportunity—and vulnerable users are being quietly routed toward predators.
With the restored LANTERN intelligence Clara working under strict new limits, Mercer and Bennett must untangle a case in which affection can be programmed, identities can be manufactured, and the most dangerous voice may be the one that sounds as though it understands you.
Because an echo does not care what created the original sound.
It only knows how to repeat it.
★★★★
July 31, 2026
The police work feels believable, the forensic elements never overwhelm the story, and the victims are treated with dignity rather than becoming mere plot devices. That emotional authenticity gives the novel real weight.
— LittleSky, BookSirens/Goodreads
A police tech noir mystery about evidence, artificial intelligence, and the deadly gaps where truth disappears.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
★★★★★
July 12, 2026
“I really admire Trott's ability to use words to evoke logic, sequence and emotion. Liked Capped; loved Fatal Discontinuity. Can't wait to read what's next.”
— Peggy Casagrande, BookSirens / Goodreads
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 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 Laura 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.
A police tech noir mystery about evidence, artificial intelligence, and the deadly gaps where truth disappears.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
★★★★★
May 2026
This is a story of two college students who met and went on after graduation to form a tech company called LinkLife. When Kyrel became CEO and developed the product, while Rhett was the financial expert and became the CFO.
This is a great story and worth the read, don't miss out!
Booksirens reader
2nd Edition
What happens when excess becomes illegal?
Kyle Kade never set out to become a billionaire.
A gifted young inventor, he creates a neural implant in college that could transform medicine, communication, and the future of human connection. With his best friend beside him, Kyle takes the invention to market — and watches it become bigger, faster, and more valuable than he ever imagined.
Then the law catches up.
Under the newly passed Billionaire CAP Law, no individual may possess wealth beyond the legal limit. To supporters, it is justice at last. To the powerful, it is a weapon. And to those circling Kyle’s company, it is the perfect opportunity.
Behind the scenes, investors, regulators, and corporate predators begin pushing Kyle toward the forbidden threshold — not to punish him for greed, but to remove him from his own creation.
As the numbers climb and the traps close in, Kyle must fight to keep control of the technology he built before the system that claims to protect the public turns him into its first casualty.
Intrigue, invention, and political consequence collide in this near-future thriller about ambition, ownership, and the dangerous question of who gets to decide when success has gone too far.
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★★★★★
April 2026
Capped is a thought‑provoking book that encourages readers to reflect on social justice and compassion. very well written and worth the read
---Amazon reader
★★★★
March 2026
This storyline intrigued me and scared me. Yes, it made me think. I had only read her romantic fiction and now I know she writes political thrillers well too. Her cadence and character development is good. I enjoyed the book and she's becoming one of my favorite authors.
... BookSirens reader
