Investigation and science fiction pair well: the unknown becomes a case to solve. Four novels with a detective at the center.
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov.
A human detective and a robot partner investigate a murder in a future megacity.
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan.
Noir investigation in a future where consciousness downloads into new bodies.
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty.
A locked-room mystery with a clone crew waking with no memory beside their own corpses.
H.O.M.S. by Demetrio Triglia.
Marvin Hale is a former detective recalled to investigate an attack in a colonized Solar System. The case grows from a single incident to an interplanetary conspiracy and then a war between parallel universes. In Italian, English and French.
