The Emerald City

By Sylvia H Northwood

A hardboiled detective out of time. A utopian city with a dark, twisted secret.

When 1930s private eye Jack Corrigan is thawed from cryogenic stasis in the year 2099, he wakes to a world he doesn't recognize. New Babylon is a perfect city, a gleaming utopia where crime and motive have been engineered out of existence. But the city's sterile harmony is shattered by a series of impossible murders. High-profile citizens are being killed in grotesque, beautiful ways, consumed by genetically engineered plants that mirror their deepest, repressed desires.

Recruited to hunt a killer in a world without killers, Jack's investigation drags him from the city's pristine spires into its shadowed underbelly. He soon discovers that the "Id-Killings" are more than just the work of a mad botanist-they're the opening move in a silent, corporate coup. A ruthless executive, a shadowy corporation named Veridian, and a plan to seize control using weaponized nature are turning the city's dream into a nightmare.

Forced into an unlikely alliance with a disgraced academic and a black-market kingpin, Jack is the only one who can see the rot beneath the roots of this perfect world. In a city of lies, this ghost from the past is the only one left to uncover the truth. But to save the future, he may have to burn it all down.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FRG14C3L
• ISBN13: 9798265787798
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"