Solving this murder might be the gravest mistake.

At the Northwest Federal University and Research Complex, where the community is sealed off from the crumbling civilization outside its walls, tensions are rife. So when the deputy director is killed during a brief blackout, knifed in the back while meeting with a handful of other highly important persons inside a secure conference room, it creates a political crisis. And Security Officer Duncan Kincaid, who's never handled a homicide before, is the one put in charge of the case...

A dystopian murder mystery set in the Slowpocalypse universe. (You can start the series with this as easily as with Book 1.) The series continues with Book 6: Seismic Disruption and returns to the Northwest FURC in Book 6: Catalytic Agents.