Residue

If you could sell the experience of killing someone, would murder become a product?

In a near-future world where neural links are universal and memory sharing is mainstream, a black market has emerged for experiences people can't - or shouldn't - have. Violence. Fear. And now: murder. The memories are anonymized. The buyer feels everything the killer felt. And the demand is growing.

Daniel Voss is a rookie cop with a dead father's legacy and something to prove. His first real case: a murder victim posed like a sculpture, staged not for concealment but for consumption. Someone is killing people and selling the experience as a product.

His mentor, the legendary Detective Frank Harlan, guides him through the investigation - the memory market's underworld, an arrogant tech mogul, a black market dealer, a buyer who collects murder like others collect art. Frank's lessons are sharp, earned, fatherly. Every killer tells you what they are. You just have to learn the language.

What Daniel doesn't know - what will destroy the only bond he has left - is that Frank is the killer. A 20-year veteran who designs murders the way a filmmaker designs shots. Every lesson is a demonstration. Every redirect is obstruction. Every act of kindness is cover for something monstrous.

Residue is a near-future noir thriller about the commodification of violence, the price of trust, and what happens when the person teaching you to hunt is the thing you're hunting.

For fans of Dark Mirror, Blade Runner, and Se7en.

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