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Et si ceux qui prétendent nous soigner faisaient tout pour nous tuer ? Dans le métro de New York, une jeune femme, apparemment en bonne santé, est prise de frissons violents et commence à suffoquer. Elle décède à son arrivée à l'hôpital. Il semblerait qu'elle ait succombé à un mystérieux virus. Une hypothèse aussitôt confirmée par des décès similaires dans les jours qui suivent. La tension monte alors d'un cran et le médecin légiste Jack Stapleton redoute qu'une terrible pandémie s'abatte sur New York.

Besides dealing with his teenage assistant, Moth (being enticed by her mafia family to join the business), Quirk's nemesis Beatrix Potter has reappeared. The nonbinary assassin reveals an unprecedented power grab by Joshua Simister. The Old Man, aka TOM, aka Quirk's ex-father-in-law plots to snatch control of all interstellar travel from the UN. The struggle for power puts the lives of Quirk's ex-wife (committed to an asylum), his son (an electronic being), and Moth's family under threat. Can the dysfunctional duo prevent this calamity?

Quirk and Moth have avoided killing each other long enough to solve another case. They decide on a local job next, and take up the search for a missing scientist. How could Quirk know this new mystery put them on a headlong collision course with his troubled past, a plethora of personal issues, and a hoard of genetic hybrid creatures with an appetite for anything that moves? When their client dies in mysterious circumstances, law enforcement pursues the dysfunctional duo all the way to a research lab in frozen Yellowknife.

Annabel Scheme is a detective story set in an alternate San Francisco where the digital and the occult live side-by-side. It's a short listen, perfect for people who like Sherlock Holmes, Douglas Adams, ghosts and/or the Internet. In Scheme's San Francisco, an indie rocker's new tracks are climbing the charts, even though the rocker herself is long dead. A devout gamer has gone missing, and the only trace of him that remains is inside his favorite game, the blockbuster MMORPG called World of Jesus. And the richest man in the city, the inventor of the search engine called Grail, might just have made a deal with a devil.

A young rep from a tech giant visits the inventor of the world's most popular A.I., and learns a deadly secret that will bring about the end of the world.