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Book Details & Expectations:
1. Book Title & Author Name
The Fallacy Web by A. L. Lieske
2. Genre(s)
Speculative Mystery Thiller
Sci-Fi Mystery
Psychological Mystery
Amateur Detective
Crime Fiction
Mystery Fantasy
3. Book Blurb / Synopsis
Nine months after her transfer to Richmond, Virginia, Azure Prescott is deep in training for her compliance and commissary certification, navigating the pressures of advancement with steady discipline. The work is demanding but orderly, until a string of carefully dismissed suicides at the historic Jefferson Hotel fractures that stability. When the detective assigned to investigate the deaths is found murdered, the pattern can no longer be ignored.
Azure and her mentor, Detective Artemis Turner, go undercover within the Jefferson, entering a world governed by reputation, ritual, and unspoken rules. What appears at first to be coincidence reveals itself as something far more deliberate. Employees vanish from records. Conversations are quietly redirected. Every explanation offered is plausible, yet none are complete. The hotel does not resist inquiry outright. It reshapes it.
On the periphery, Phineas Granger investigates a separate but equally troubling anomaly: a systemic misplacement of fingerprints resulting in mixed identifications that defy procedural logic. The errors are widespread, consistent, and impossible to attribute to chance. Somewhere between administrative oversight and intentional manipulation, identity itself has become unstable.
Meanwhile, in the dreamscape, the familiar is absent. Wagner and his dreamwalkers have not been seen for over a year. In their place emerges a new presence, one that does not guide or observe, but interrogates. Motives remain unclear. The questions asked, however, are precise, invasive, and impossible to escape.
As the inquiry deepens, Azure begins to recognize familiar patterns tied to earlier investigations long believed closed. What once appeared isolated now reveals itself as deliberate misdirection, with threads extending well beyond Richmond and far past national borders. The Jefferson is not the beginning, but proof that something older and far more calculated has been quietly advancing, unseen.
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