#65 Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty

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This framework for this is a locked room mystery but set on a space station where there are almost no humans. But when a shuttle of humans arrives then the murders happen.  There is a human ambassador on the station, a woman who has lived with death always happening around her, and a man that is hiding out on one of the ships on the station trying to avoid the ambassador and official notice of Earth.  Mallory is a woman hiding from life, murder has happened so much around her that only she seems to solve that she has her own liaison with the state police.  After one too many murders she appeals to the nearest space station and is allowed to live there.  Her current means of support is allowing herself to be studied by one of the alien races that lives there, a hive mind that resembles Earth’s wasps.

 

When word comes of a shuttle full of people to arrive, she panics thinking that murder will come back in her life.  And of course it does when the ship is attacked before it can even dock.  Now Mallory needs to work out what happened and figure out what is wrong with the station.  A good solid read with lots of interesting aliens living together on the station.   Hopefully there will be more in this setting. 

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss