knizer@bookwyrm.social reviewed Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to …
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 …
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 alien races and strong character development, excellent audiobook production and delightful voice acting by #KelseyNavarroFoster, I just preordered book 3, Infinite Archive, out in April 2025 from my LBS #PorterSquareBooks. Oh, and of course, Queen Tina is fucking metal! #recommendation