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The 2020s · Los Angeles, 2020

Fair Warning

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Jack McEvoy becomes a suspect in the death of a woman he once dated

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Jack McEvoy writes for FairWarning, a consumer watchdog site. Two detectives show up at his door: Tina Portrero, a woman he once slept with, was found dead in her shower in a staged accident. Jack teams up with former FBI agent Rachel Walling and learns several victims had sent DNA to ancestry site GT23, which sold the samples. The trail leads to a lab tech selling women's genetic profiles to incels and to a killer who calls himself the Shrike online. The Shrike kills his accomplices and vanishes. Months later, he hides in Jack's car, and Jack flips the vehicle on purpose. Afterward, Rachel agrees to investigate crimes with him.

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  1. Behind the scenesThe site was real

    FairWarning, where McEvoy works, was a real news service, and editor Myron Levin is based on its actual editor. It shut down in February 2021.

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  2. ReferenceDNA with no oversight

    The book shows how genetic-testing labs largely police themselves with little government oversight.

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