Lock In

I'm not normally a fan of cop stories, but John Scalzi can make any genre into an entertaining read. Lock In is set in the near future after a virus has rendered left numbers of people locked in - conscious, but unable to move in any way. Society's response was to develop brain scanning technology, and let the locked in people live in virtual worlds or control androids. 20 or so years later, locked-in Chris Shane is a detective trying to solve a weird murder that has big implications for people like himself.

It's a good mystery, and an entertainingly nefarious plot is uncovered through the course of the novel. Well worth a read, like the bulk of Scalzi's oeuvre.