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Penguin Publishing Group · Ebook · July 1, 2025
Amateur sleuth Mallory Viridian has just about got her bearings aboard the space station she calls home, but now the physical embodiment of the Internet is on its way, and it's bringing murder with it.
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- Who it’s for
- A space-station murder mystery gets an internet-sized twist and a welcome dose of amateur sleuthing.
- Themes
- Murder investigation, Alien encounter, Life aboard a space station
- Genres
- Sci-Fi Crime, Amateur Sleuths, Space Exploration Fiction
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Amateur sleuth Mallory Viridian has just about got her bearings aboard the space station she calls home, but now the physical embodiment of the Internet is on its way, and it's bringing murder with it. Mallory Viridian has had a quiet few months. Even with the increased influx of humans visiting Station Eternity, she hasn’t seen so much as a bar brawl. Used to people dying left and right around her, the lack of murders to solve has left her unexpectedly . . . bored.
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But humanity's favorite way to waste time is on its way to her sector of the galaxy. A giant, one-of-a-kind data ship called Metis is bringing the entire Internet from Earth—as well as a mystery fan convention. On top of that, Mallory's literary agent is aboard, and he tells Mallory that she's the keynote speaker. It's almost a relief when a killer decides to strike at the convention. When Mallory finds her agent dead, she knows she has to work fast to find the murderer. With a strange new alien with unknown motives, a ship with impossible abilities, a lonely living, comprehensive Internet, and a deadly crime to solve, Mallory has her work cut out for her . . . .
A Case in Orbit
A space-station murder mystery gets an internet-sized twist and a welcome dose of amateur sleuthing.
Come here for
- A woman sleuth with a murder to solve
- The collision of mystery fandom and science fiction
Expect
- A murder at a convention aboard a space station
- An unusual data ship and an alien with unknown motives
Where it sits
| Sci-Fi Crime | 90% |
|---|---|
| Amateur Sleuths | 45% |
| Space Exploration Fiction | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Amateur Sleuths
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Sci-Fi Crime
- Authors
- Mur Lafferty
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- July 1, 2025
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Murder investigation · Alien encounter · Life aboard a space station
- Reading lane
- Amateur Sleuths