Caves of Steel (2025)

A human detective and a humanoid robot must investigate a murder amid mutual suspicion between the populations they represent. Asimov makes the robot's constraints and the investigator's assumptions matter to how a possible explanation is tested. The appeal is deduction inside an invented social system, where an explanation also has to survive the investigators' conflicting expectations. Start here for Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw, before their partnership continues in The Naked Sun.