Knowledge Cipher: A Hartford Noir

A missing hacker. A corporate algorithm that kills. One woman who refuses to stay quiet. When Marcus Morrison vanishes with a USB drive full of corporate secrets, his sister hires private investigator Nataki Divine Allah. The case seems straightforward-until Nataki discovers the truth: Constitution Insurance has been using a secret algorithm to deny claims, systematically killing Black and brown communities while celebrating record profits. Seven years ago, that same system let her mother die. Now Nataki is hunting the men who built the machine-a powerful CEO, a network of lawyers, and a secret brotherhood that will kill to protect their billions. She gathers witnesses, builds a ledger of the dead, and uncovers a pipeline of missing girls that stretches from Hartford to New Haven. But the machine is watching. And it's building a wall around her. Knowledge Cipher is a gritty Hartford noir about one woman's war against a system designed to erase people like her. When evidence isn't enough, she becomes the flood. "A noir for the age of algorithms."