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Premise labels used: locked-room mystery, revenge quest, immortality research, lab lockdown, murder investigation, AI companion, futuristic retelling, family betrayal

Setting labels used: near future, scientific lab, locked building, isolated location, Danish setting, 2040s, 2050s, dystopian future, one-night setting, experimental facility

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Rose/House

Arkady Martine · 2023

A sentient desert house reports a corpse inside itself, forcing a detective and an estranged protégé to enter its sealed mystery.

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Premise labels: AI house · locked house mystery · dead body inside · murder investigation · restricted access · sentient building · legal duty report · archival mystery · architectural crime scene · haunted house premise

Setting labels: Mojave Desert · California · China Lake · near future · 22nd century · desert setting · remote setting · single-house setting · dystopian future · AI-infused world

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Distance: 0.2133

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Fantasy in Death

J.D. Robb · 2010 · In Death

A future NY homicide detective probes a locked-room beheading tied to a cutting-edge virtual reality game.

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Premise labels: locked-room mystery · video game murder · virtual reality · computer gaming industry · police investigation · futuristic homicide

Setting labels: future New York · 2060 · not-too-distant future · holographic gaming room · computer game industry · virtual reality environment

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Distance: 0.2149

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Specimen

Shay Savage · 2016

A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.

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Premise labels: memory loss · laboratory experiment · super soldier · corporate war · doctor-patient bond · engineered attraction · identity mystery · trust issues · altered human

Setting labels: laboratory · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · corporate-controlled world · war-torn future · science experiment setting

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Distance: 0.2163

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Violet Is Nowhere

Faith Gardner · 2022 · The Jolvix Episodes

Kidnapped into a stocked cabin, a rising rock star must use one phone call to uncover her link to a stranger before time runs out.

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Premise labels: kidnapping · hostage puzzle · phone lifeline · race against time · connection mystery · survival game · forced cooperation · strangers to allies · locked-room setup · mystery hookup

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · secluded cabin · locked room · California · Los Angeles · Bay Area · urban sci-fi · alternative future · tech-saturated world · remote wilderness

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Distance: 0.2180

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PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2

Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki, Osamu Tezuka · 2009 · Pluto [プルートウ]

A robot detective and a boy robot unravel a string of murders targeting the world's strongest artificial beings.

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Premise labels: robot serial murders · detective investigation · targeted victims · AI consciousness · memory tampering · geopolitical conspiracy · humanlike robots · serial killer mystery

Setting labels: distant future · alternate reality · postwar world · global setting · Japan · Europe · Persia · political sci-fi · robot-integrated society

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Distance: 0.2186

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Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2024 · Service Model

A protocol-bound robot valet kills his master and wanders a collapsed future world searching for purpose.

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Premise labels: robot valet · murder mystery · purpose search · employment quest · post-human world · artificial labor · self-discovery · autonomy

Setting labels: future Earth · dystopian wasteland · post-apocalyptic world · post-human world · robot-run society · collapsed civilization · manor house · decaying infrastructure

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Distance: 0.2211

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Flybot

Dennis E. Taylor · 2025

A physicist finds impossible tech, and he and a colleague are pulled into a near-future AI mystery with deadly consequences.

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Premise labels: mysterious tech · rogue AI · scientists in over their heads · man vs AI · corporate espionage · tech mystery · near-future AI

Setting labels: near future · Earth · research lab · scientific research community · corporate espionage setting · observed tracked environment

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Distance: 0.2225

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Jack Glass

Adam Roberts · 2012

A notorious killer’s three interlocked crimes unfold in a brutal solar-system future, with each mystery solved as a howdunit.

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Premise labels: murder mystery · locked-room mystery · prison story · howdunit · future dystopia · spacefaring civilization · criminal mastermind · interlinked mysteries

Setting labels: far future · solar system · space habitats · asteroids · prison asteroid · orbital habitats · Earth · dystopian future · corporate rule · class-stratified society

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Distance: 0.2238

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Count Zero

William Gibson · 2006 · Sprawl

A mercenary, a hacker, and an art dealer are drawn into a corporate-cybernetic conspiracy in the Sprawl.

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Premise labels: corporate espionage · cyberspace hacker · art investigation · mercenary extraction · biochip theft · multiple protagonists · AI intrigue · virtual reality

Setting labels: near future · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · corporate-controlled world · urban megacity · cyberspace · virtual reality · global economy · Sprawl

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Distance: 0.2250

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The Last Conversation

Paul Tremblay · 2019

An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.

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Premise labels: amnesia · identity crisis · memory loss · consciousness · caregiver mystery · white room mystery · clone identity · replica dilemma · post-apocalyptic recovery · lab recovery

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian setting · laboratory-like room · infirmary setting · dark room · isolated room · pandemic setting

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Distance: 0.2263

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A Quantum Murder

Peter F. Hamilton · 1998 · Greg Mandel

A psychic investigator is pulled into a locked-room murder at a research estate, where science and secrets collide.

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Premise labels: murder investigation · psychic detective · closed-circle mystery · futuristic whodunit · scientific research murder · corporate assignment · rural investigation · locked-room puzzle · possible time-travel mystery · cover-up

Setting labels: near future · post-climate change · post-global warming · post-collapse · post-socialist dictatorship · future England · flooded Britain · rural England · countryside setting · isolated research retreat · stately home · research compound · storm-bound location · academic enclave

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Distance: 0.2273

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Deep Freeze

Michael C. Grumley · 2024 · Revival

An army veteran survives a deadly bus crash, then wakes in a secret lab where cryonics, lies, and danger unfold.

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Premise labels: immortality · cryonics · resurrection · medical conspiracy · secret experiment · survival mystery · truth-seeking

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic future · dystopian future · secret lab · medical facility · icy river · winter storm · collapsed society

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2273

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