Starfleet Academy (2010s) novels 4

In the 2009 film's timeline, Cadets Kirk, McCoy and Uhura get caught up in the hunt for a serial killer who has returned to San Francisco after twenty years.

Jim Kirk starts at Starfleet Academy already notorious among his classmates, and when McCoy becomes a suspect in a misconduct investigation, Kirk sets out to clear his name.

During first-year exams, Kirk is hit by blackouts and reports of things he doesn't remember doing, and with McCoy and Uhura he uncovers a Romulan plot aimed at him.

Kirk and McCoy join a campus game of fake assassinations, until real explosions start going off on the Academy grounds.