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The Authorities is a series of detective novels by Scott Meyer, featuring a healthy dose of Meyer's signature humor. These are the author's first non-sci-fi novels. The series currently consists of The Authorities (2015) and Destructive Reasoning (2022).The novels are focused on Sinclair Rutherford, a Seattle uniformed cop, who is frequently put down by detectives, especially since he has once voiced his desire to become a detective himself. Once, when guarding the scene of a murder, he encounters a group of privately-funded detectives colloquially known as "Capp's people" (they are bankrolled by a well-known tech billionaire named Vince Capp), who use cutting-edge technology to investigate crimes. Rutherford manages to distinguish himself by figuring out that the likely murder weapon is a rare fist-shaped metal sex toy (he isn't into that kind of thing; he just happened to have seen a Mythbusters episode, where one was shown). With the help of the reluctant detectives, he manages to track down the murderer and has a fight with him in a public place. The video of the "sex toy fight" goes viral, and Rutherford is personally visited by Vince Capp, who offers him a place on the detective team, which he calls "the Authorities". The team already includes a brilliant detective, a security expert, a tech guy, a professor who studies the use of bees for forensics purposes, and a manager to run the team. After signing the contract (which Capp doesn't give him time to read), Rutherford finds out that his place on the team is to drive the van and to play the role of a Cowboy Cop, complete with a (deliberately) mismatched outfit, a cigar (an e-cigar, since he doesn't smoke), and a Hand Cannon (a modernized version of a Soviet TP-82 triple-barreled gun, given out cosmonauts). He's not happy with the role (especially since he's personally more of a By-the-Book Cop) but is told that, should he attempt to quit, Capp's lawyers would destroy him for breach of contract.The Authorities are sent to investigate the murder of a psychiatrist at his own practice with plenty of possible suspects...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Destructive Reasoning deals with the team tracking down a Serial Killer (sorta) in Los Angeles. | |
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Bee-Bee Gun: Professor Sherwood has temporarily joined the team to study the viability of using bees for forensics purposes. According to him, bees are far more sensitive to specific scents than any dog's nose. When analyzing a crime scene, he waves around a scanner that looks like a TSA metal detector wand. In fact, the "scanner" is a high-tech container for bees. Each bee is trained to react to a particular scent and is placed in its own compartment (which has a tiny opening to the outside) and attached to a sensor. Whenever a bee detects its scent, it reacts, and the sensor measures how much the bee reacts, corresponding to the strength of the scent, which is then displayed on a small screen on the device. He keeps tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of bees at the team's HQ (luckily, on the roof) and a single hive in the van. He has also gotten adept at using bees to detain suspects, by first spraying them with a special substance that attracts bees and then releasing them. He has also successfully used them for "enhanced interrogation", although he was told to never do that again, as it's bad PR. In the second book, he has developed a new delivery method called "Her Majesty", which is a drone that contains the hive's queen. The drone can grab onto a suspect, which will result in the bees swarming them. | |
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Asian and Nerdy: Albert. While his ethnicity is never outright stated, upon first meeting him, Sinclair does note that he looks to be Korean. | |
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