The Bureau of Inference: Null Case

Detective Phil Navarro works homicide in a city where androids are no longer bound by obedience, only by choice. His partner, Katrinka, is a SOUL chipped police android. She can feel fear, question her motives, and worry about what happens after reformatting. When a technorganic marriage ends in an impossible act of violence, Phil and Katrinka are drawn into an investigation that threatens to reignite old fears about artificial free will. As political pressure mounts to return AI to obedient Asimovian constraints, every discovery risks proving the worst fears right. Some crimes have no clear motive. Some questions have no safe answers. And some partners are more human than the people judging them.