Poe: The Asylum Protocol

In the mist-shrouded nation of Seora, a series of baffling deaths at a state-run nursing home is dismissed as natural decline. But when a disgraced neurologist inherits the medical records of the deceased, he uncovers a pattern of terror that points not to a maniac, but to a corporation executing a decades-long protocol of human experimentation. It is a crime so perfect in its medical logic and so monstrous in its legal invisibility that it leaves no wounded, only corpses—and no culprit, only a pharmaceutical patent filed in the distant past. As a dormant war-crimes treaty between Seora and former colonizer Yamato is invoked to claim inheritance of the victims' rights, the investigator realizes the killer has already accounted for every legal precedent. The police hunt for a criminal, but the true horror is that the crime was committed inside a laboratory, a courtroom, and the future.