Hoshi and the Red City Circuit

In twenty-sixth-century Red City, the enslaved Operator caste possesses the neurological abilities needed to program the quantum computers that keep society functioning. Hoshi Archer has recently gained her freedom and now works as a private investigator. When three Operators are murdered, the police need her help—and one victim’s identity turns the case into something deeply personal. Hoshi’s ex-girlfriend is among the dead. As bureaucratic ambitions and old rivalries complicate the investigation, the possibility of alien involvement makes the pattern harder to interpret. To prevent another death, Hoshi must unravel a dangerous program and find a way to communicate across an unfamiliar divide. This science-fiction mystery places autonomy and institutional power at the center of its investigation.