Neo Shanghai Overdrive

Shanghai, 2048. In a world where humanity lives as much in the metaverse as in the physical realm, detective She Lo Ke is the sharpest mind in the city: a former game developer turned investigator who sees patterns where others see only noise.

When a game publisher’s heir is found dead inside a locked metaverse server, and the evidence points in three contradictory directions at once, She Lo Ke and trusted partner Dr. Qu must navigate layers of corporate deception, virtual crime scenes, and the machinations of the enigmatic Count ∅, a mastermind who operates entirely from within the game.

The rules of the physical world no longer apply. The rules of the virtual world are being rewritten. And someone is playing a game that only one person can win.

Neo Shanghai Overdrive is Book 1 of the Metaverse Detectives series, blending Sherlock Holmes-style deduction, revenge plotting, and cyberpunk world-building in Shanghai 2048.