Bastion/Blackstone

Detective Elliot Blackstone looks into the murder of a man who was deleted from the government surveillance system. In trying to get to the bottom of who the man was, and how he got deleted, Elliot runs afoul of a new, anonymous gang in the city. To unravel the mystery, he has to do what he hates most, play a VR video game the victim created and left behind. Unfortunately, the person most suited to help him is his wife and they haven't been able to speak without arguing in months. Faceless is a cyberpunk murder mystery about the one police officer in the whole city who volunteers to go into the slums. Bastion is a city ruled by corporations, governed by an AI, and populated by people who live only in virtual reality.

Psychologist, hypnotist, con man, liar... mindbreaker. The American government has invested a lot into the techniques and tricks of psychological manipulation, both on other people and on the self. Only the most loyal soldiers are eligible for the program, but one of them passed on the knowledge to his son. Just weeks before the draft, Kyte finds himself on the run, wanted for murder. One step away from a rogue mindbreaker, he is forced into a desperate plan to insert himself into a gang powerful enough, and connected enough, to smuggle him out of the city and out from under EVE's surveillance. He just has to pull off everything his father ever taught him and do it fast. Detective Blackstone is tasked with bringing him to justice, it was a Congressman's son that was attacked after all. He just has to do it before the big guns get sent in to clean house.