If chasing leads with Agent Chris Shane and ex-Integrator Leslie Vann hooked you—the corporate cover-ups, the Haden/threep angles, the Integrator complications—then Asimov’s classic pairing of Detective Elijah Baley with the robot R. Daneel Olivaw will hit the same sweet spot. Like the Watergate murder and the web of Haden-tech interests in Lock In, Baley and Daneel dig into a homicide that exposes fault lines between humans and advanced tech, with procedural beats, clue-hunting, and sociopolitical tension powering every chapter.

Did the breezy, wisecracking tone in Lock In make the high-tech sleuthing even more fun? Murderbot’s hilariously self-deprecating voice delivers that same energy while it unravels a sabotage plot on a survey mission. Like watching Shane and Vann wisecrack their way through tense interviews and corporate stonewalling, you’ll get corporate penny‑pinching, corrupted mission data, and a reluctant protector who solves the mystery with competence and sarcasm to spare.

If you were drawn to how Lock In explores Haden’s syndrome as a social system—Agora economies, threep access, funding battles in Congress—and how that shapes Shane’s casework, Infomocracy delivers a rich, policy-first near future. As global microdemocracies gear up for an election, Mishima and Ken must uncover manipulation and media distortions, echoing the way Haden tech, lobbying, and public policy ripple through every clue in your favorite FBI procedural.

If you loved how Lock In sprints from a body at the Watergate to integrator clinics to corporate offices without catching its breath, Recursion pushes that accelerator even harder. Detective Barry Sutton and neuroscientist Helena Smith chase the source of a memory-plague as reality keeps shifting—delivering the same cliffhanger chapter-ends, escalating reveals, and propulsive stakes that made Shane and Vann’s investigation so hard to put down.

If Lock In’s ethical tangles grabbed you—the consent issues around Integrators, corporations monetizing threeps and the Agora, and the legal gray zones Shane keeps hitting—Autonomous digs even deeper. Patent pirate Jack Chen exposes the human costs of IP control, while an indentured military bot, Paladin, and its handler navigate agency and coercion. It probes the same moral fault lines of tech-enabled autonomy that sit beneath every choice in Shane and Vann’s case.