If you loved following Cal Sounder as he unraveled a Titan’s “suicide” into a full-blown conspiracy, you’ll click with Inspector Tyador Borlú’s grim pursuit in The City & the City. The case forces him to navigate two interlaced cities that citizens must "unsee," mirroring the way Cal has to read between official lines and corporate power. The procedural grit, deadpan wit, and patient clue-tracking will scratch the same noir-investigation itch that Titanium Noir nails.

In Titanium Noir, the Titans’ engineered privilege turns the city into a caste system that Cal must work around. The Space Between Worlds plays a similar game with multiverse travel restricted to those whose counterparts are mostly dead—meaning the poor and expendable. As Cara slips between worlds, she uncovers the kind of class-rigged machinery and off-limits secrets that echo the elite, near-untouchable circles Cal brushes up against while probing the Titan death.

If the ethical gut-punch of Titanium Noir—where augmentation and longevity tech props up an untouchable class—stuck with you, Never Let Me Go pushes that unease to its quiet, devastating limit. As Kathy H. reflects on a childhood shaped by a purpose she was never meant to question, the book interrogates the same moral bargain beneath the Titans’ power: who pays, who benefits, and what lines society pretends not to see.

Cal Sounder’s dry, seen-it-all wisecracks while tiptoeing around corporate muscle give Titanium Noir its bite. Gun, with Occasional Music leans into that same darkly comic register: private eye Conrad Metcalf spars with evolved animals, memory-dulling drugs, and crooked authorities, quipping through danger the way Cal does when a Titan’s "open-and-shut" death is anything but. It’s grim, weird, and funny in the same breath.

Like Cal Sounder digging past glossy augmentation and PR shields, the unnamed detective in Midnight, Water City chases the truth behind a famed scientist’s murder in a drowned, neon-lit future. The tech is cool, but it’s the bruised conscience, terse interrogations, and pressure from powerful interests—so familiar from that Titan case—that drive the story. If you came for the vibes and stayed for the human stakes, this delivers.