Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Default User" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 04:59:49 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: Injection-Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 06:59:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f763dafd62cf6266d9eaeb4b526a3741"; logging-data="2305052"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18VJ1WYVJYvKIIOHB230l0K00jZ3CoycR8=" User-Agent: XanaNews/1.19.1.320 Cancel-Lock: sha1:6CU/VEH4A00JKG5X73C364NLopQ= Bytes: 1798 Another read from fall of last year. Mallory Viridian has been an unwilling amateur detective most of her adult life. That didn't change when she relocated to the alien Station Eternity. In the previous book, the reason for this was revealed. Now, the new leader of the station, Mrs. Brown, a subject of one of Mallory's Earthside investigations, has to leave on station business, so Mal is in charge. Now an new group of humans has arrived on station, including the law enforcement agent who hounded her on Earth, her former best friend, and her brother, Mal's teenage crush. When humans get around Mallory, murder follows. Besides a killing to solve, the station is acting odd, and her alien symbiotes the wasp-like Sundry are as well. Oh, and the rock-like Gneiss have a political crisis. This book packed in more plotlines, including ones that weren't as well integrated, but I still liked it quite a bit. Brian