Dead Space

By Kali Wallace

Book Overview

Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award

An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day.

Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt. Now she spends her days investigating petty crimes to help her employer maximize its profits. She's surprised to hear from an old friend and fellow victim of the terrorist attack that ruined her life--and that surprise quickly turns to suspicion when he claims to have discovered something shocking about their shared history and the tragedy that neither of them can leave behind.

Before Hester can learn more, her friend is violently murdered at a remote asteroid mine. Hester joins the investigation to find the truth, both about her friend's death and the information he believed he had uncovered. But catching a killer is only the beginning of Hester's worries, and she soon realizes that everything she learns about her friend, his fellow miners, and the outpost they call home brings her closer to revealing secrets that very powerful and very dangerous people would rather keep hidden in the depths of space.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1984803727
• ISBN13: 9781984803726
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

murder mystery space

This book was a wonderful read, a nice walk into sci-fi mystery for me. I read this book so quickly, I enjoyed it but wished it was longer. Its evenly paced and an easy read. Nothing to hard to understand when they are talking about the AI or anything more “science-y”. The story centralized on one main character, and their journey from an excited scientist to a safety officer with mechanical parts. The back of the book gives you a heads up, she is going to be investigating a murder of an old friend of hers. The book is nice when it gives you information on the who, what, where, and why of the mystery. I would have liked it if the information was given out a little more slowly and not in chunks at a time. The development of the other characters would have been nice. It could have been a better who done it if the characters were fleshed out a bit. The only thing that was sort of meh was of course the monarchy of the company she was “working” for, I know that it’s a legit issue that is very much present in this world. I just hate that it is present in other worlds too, but such is life.