A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennet

 A society and world that has embraced biotechnology and rejected mechanical technology is the setting for this tale.  Din, an augmented engraver, is enhanced to have an eidetic memory triggered by scent indexing. Ana has mysterious enhancements and is the senior partner of the Empire’s detective team. The two are sent to investigate the murder of a prominent citizen, whose family is one of the two most eminent families in the raising of enhanced beef.

 The storyline often indirectly alludes to the abuses of “lower” animals for the benefit of the masses. The killing of the biologically enhanced animals, as well as the harvesting of their main food source by biologically enhanced “cats,” figures prominently in the plot.

 Recognition of the value of all life may be the not-so-hidden message in the book.   Behavioral conditioning dangers are examined.

 It is a good mystery with strange and entertaining characters; I recommend the book and the series.

 

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