"Bang Bang Bodhisatta" by Aubrey Wood.

Hi again Readers and typers,
     "Bang Bang Bodhisatta" by Aubrey Wood.
   The central character is a transgender woman hoping that by
helping a Private Eye she will earn money to pay for more
transgender stuff. She is about 30 years old but of diminutive
stature and can pass for 12. Carson's World is sort of free-
wheeling authoritarian state with Carson running most of the
vice. Lots of stuff about body modifications of several sorts.
She and the PI keep finding dead bodies  or scenes of violence.
     She meets the killer unwittingly and once again the
psycho-divergent are the villain. The killer has multiple-
personality disorder and has been in trouble before but due
to the very best connections escaped without the confinement
  or death that might be the murderer's due.
      It is set in the Western USA and most of the action takes
place in a city in California, probably Los Angeles. We have
android/robots most of whom are stuck in a servile mode.
They long for freedom. They will even participate in crime in
a passive mode to win freedom.
     The murderers and by the end of the book there is more
than one, escape once more. There will have to be another book
to finish the questions left about this crew of gender-divergent
people living in polyculues, dealing drugs and solving crimes.
I enjoyed it very much.
I will read any sequels if I live so long.
bliss
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