A New Breed of Criminal (2023)

Plotzle Expert · E66 · May 14, 2026 · Crime

Six plot descriptions for A New Breed of Criminal (2023). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A parole officer becomes involved with a recently released inmate and helps him establish a counterfeit prescription ring that operates through sympathetic pharmacists in working-class Boston neighborhoods.
2. A criminal rises from the backstreets of Newcastle's West End to become a major crime figure before authorities work to bring him down and dismantle his operation.
3. Two corrupt vice detectives in Miami manipulate crime statistics by coercing addicts into committing robberies in rival precincts while skimming confiscated cash to fund their offshore accounts.
4. A bail bondsman tracks a teenage hacker across rural Montana but finds the boy has already been killed and his identity assumed by someone far more dangerous than expected.
5. An insurance investigator realizes that victims of seemingly random carjackings in Phoenix all share connections to a decade-old embezzlement case that was never solved and left three families bankrupt.
6. A forensic accountant in Detroit discovers that genetically modified bacteria are being engineered to consume evidence at crime scenes and the biotech startup behind it operates from abandoned warehouses.