Chaos Terminal

Paperback, 384 pages

Published Nov. 6, 2023 by Ace.

ISBN:
978-0-593-09813-4
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5 stars (1 review)

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but when one of the new human arrivals on a space shuttle is murdered, she’s back in the game.

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, thank you very much. But no matter what she does, people persist in dying around her—and only she seems to be able to solve the crime. After fleeing to an alien space station in hopes that the lack of humans would stop the murders, a serial killer had the nerve to follow her to Station Eternity. (Mallory deduced who the true culprit was that time, too.)

Now the law enforcement agent who hounded Mallory on Earth has come to Station Eternity, along with her teenage crush and his sister, Mallory’s best friend from high school. Mallory doesn’t believe in coincidences, and so she’s not at all …

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A damn delight - space station murders, hijinx w/aliens

5 stars

Second in the #MidsolarMurders series by the delightful #MurLafferty, which started with an inverted murder mystery cliche: our protagonist writes crime fiction because, somehow, murders keep happening to people around her, but she is always able to easily solve the whodunit.

The statistically unlikely coincidences wreak havoc on her life and make her a prime suspect - so she leaves Earth and humanity entirely to avoid causing more harm, and takes refuge as one of the handful of humans on an alien space station.

The first book explores the reasoning for the coincidences, and when more humans show up (and bodies start to pile up) we discover the how and why our protagonist is a magnet for homicide. But Chaos Terminal doesn't rely on that gimmick (should come to no surprise - its another murder story full of sleuthing) but rather explores an unexpected, related path.

Several well developed …