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started reading Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

Mur Lafferty: Station Eternity (Paperback, 2022, Penguin Publishing Group)

Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove …

Accidentally started reading the third book in this series, and found it interesting enough that I decided to start from the beginning.

The MC is like Jessica Fletcher or any number of literary mystery characters, who always seem to be in the middle of a murder mystery. Unlike on "Murder She Wrote," though, people start to suspect her of being, you know, somehow involved in all these murders.

To avoid this, she decides to move to a sentient space station where she's basically the only human, because the aliens of the universe, who built and run the station, don't fully trust humans not to mess everything up. Surely THAT will solve her problem of being a murder magnet...

@theresmiling@bookrastinating.com I will update as things go along! I think I'm about three chapters in. Seems to me like the murder mystery aspect of the story is secondary to the exploration of what near future earth might be like after alien contact, and the conflicts of dealing with people who are entirely different species.