Alex Kourvo: 5 books

In a world of wide-spread brain enhancements and everyday nanotech, one tiny breakdown means everyone is in danger.  Aidra Scott has every PI's dream job. All she has to do is prove that Jean Claude Gascoigne killed a man in cold blood. It should be easy. After all, Gascoigne committed the...

Amber wants a self-cleaning house. She deserves it, doesn't she? But with two adults and a teenager at home, she knows it's never going to be perfect.Or is it?This very short story first appeared in Reflection's Edge magazine.

 It's called the Zone—the ring of abandoned neighborhoods surrounding the now-thriving city of Detroit. Officially, it's uninhabited. In reality, it's the home of the hiding, the forgotten, and the criminal. PI Aidra Scott avoids the area when she can. But when she sees her teenage son's...

Private Investigator Aidra Scott is exasperated by her teenage son, worried about her pregnant sister, and mystified by her assistant—a computer genius she's never actually met. Living in a tiny Detroit condo she can barely afford, there is no room in her life, or her heart, for a pet. Since the...

Morris Payne is a viker, an elite hacker who navigates the electronic universe as easily as the rest of us walk down the street. While he's famous in the virtual world, he's anonymous in this one. Agoraphobia, with its uncontrolled panic attacks, has left him housebound and friendless. But someone,...