SHELLI, the first book in the SHELLI: Synthetic Crimes series, was ranked among the top ten sci-fi novels of 2024 by Reading Freely book reviews and praised by popular YouTube channels like Good Bad Flicks, Professor Geek, and Mike Travels Nowhere. Fans of Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries, Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel, and Hollywood projects like Ex Machina and Westworld will love this new vision of tomorrow. As one reviewer said, "Think less Blade Runner and more X-Files with androids!"

HUMANS HAVE FOUR MOTIVES FOR MURDER:
Passion, Panic, Prejudice, and Greed

MACHINES HAVE ONLY ONE:
Purpose

Meet Shelli, a synthetic investigator that hunts defective and often dangerous machines. In its years of service to Homeland Security, Shelli has never questioned its purpose, never doubted its mission, and never failed in its task.
Until now.

Partnered with young analyst Jake August, Shelli finds itself wading into deep political waters after a US senator is brutally murdered, presumably by a synthetic. In their search for answers, Shelli and Jake race across America, from Washington DC’s halls of power to the vast, frigid plains of Alaska. But every clue they discover only creates more troubling questions, because what they are hunting is neither human nor machine. It is something far more dangerous . . . the next evolution.