Paperback, 384 pages
Published Nov. 6, 2023 by Ace.
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 …
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 surprised when someone in the latest shuttle from Earth is murdered. It’s the story of her life, after all.
Only this time she has more than a killer to deal with. Between her fugitive friends, a new threat arising from the Sundry hivemind, and the alarmingly peculiar behavior of the sentient space station they all call home, even Mallory’s deductive abilities are strained. If she can’t find out what’s going on (and fast), a disaster of intergalactic proportions may occur.…
There is more world building and more of Mallory's backstory is visited upon her with the usual complications.
There is more world building and more of Mallory's backstory is visited upon her with the usual complications.
Chaos Terminal didn't reel me in like Station Eternity did, and I'm not quite sure why.
It could be that it mainly revolves around Mallory and the visiting humans instead of weird aliens, or that we already met all the weird aliens and CT doesn't give us much of anything new, or it could be that I just didn't like it as much. 🤷
Chaos Terminal didn't reel me in like Station Eternity did, and I'm not quite sure why.
It could be that it mainly revolves around Mallory and the visiting humans instead of weird aliens, or that we already met all the weird aliens and CT doesn't give us much of anything new, or it could be that I just didn't like it as much. 🤷
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.
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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
