Published: Sep. 23, 2011
Words: 101,486 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452426679

Short description

“Rusch does a superb job of making the Retrieval Artist books work as fully satisfying standalone mysteries and as installments in a gripping saga full of love, loss, grief, hope, adventure, and discovery. It is also some of the best science fiction ever written.” New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card

Extended description

Retrieval Artist Miles Flint gets an urgent message from his mentor, Paloma. But by the time he arrives at her apartment, she’s dead, the victim of a terrible murder. The police, already on the scene, think Flint’s connected to the death.

Effectively frozen out of the investigation, he starts one of his own, and discovers secrets that Paloma kept, secrets that make Flint question everything he knew about her, everything she taught him about honor, ethics, and being a Retrieval Artist.

“Rusch does a superb job of making the Retrieval Artist books work as fully satisfying standalone mysteries and as installments in a gripping saga full of love, loss, grief, hope, adventure, and discovery. It is also some of the best science fiction ever written.” (Read more) Retrieval Artist Miles Flint gets an urgent message from his mentor, Paloma. But by the time he arrives at her apartment, she’s dead, the victim of a terrible murder. The police, already on the scene, think Flint’s connected to the death.

Effectively frozen out of the investigation, he starts one of his own, and discovers secrets that Paloma kept, secrets that make Flint question everything he knew about her, everything she taught him about honor, ethics, and being a Retrieval Artist.

“Rusch does a superb job of making the Retrieval Artist books work as fully satisfying standalone mysteries and as installments in a gripping saga full of love, loss, grief, hope, adventure, and discovery. It is also some of the best science fiction ever written.”
New York Times bestselling author
Orson Scott Card

“A science fiction murder mystery by one of the genre’s best….A book with complex characters, an interesting and unpredictable plot, and timeless and universal things to say about the human condition.”
The Panama News

If there’s any such thing as a sci-fi CSI, the Retrieval Artist novels set the tone.
The Edge Boston

International bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has won two Hugo awards, a World Fantasy Award, and three Asimov’s Readers Choice Awards.

IO9 called her six (so far) bestselling, award-winning Retrieval Artist novels one of the top ten science fiction detective series ever.
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mystery, police procedural, private detective, science fiction, moon, awardwinning, hardboiled detective, kristine kathryn rusch, wmg publishing, retrieval artist

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Review by: Nancy Beck on Feb. 12, 2012 :
Another fantastic novel in the Retrieval Artist series. In this one, Miles Flint receives emergency alarms from Paloma, his mentor. But by the time he arrives at Paloma's apartment, it's too late: She's been murdered.

But by whom?

His first thought is to get aboard Paloma's ship, the Dove, and see if she left any clues there. She has - complete with hologram informing Miles he has inherited her estate.

Which angers at least one member of a certain law firm...

This was fast paced and gripping, but as is typical with KKR, the human element is right there throughout the story, this time between DeRicci and a certain detective (not Miles). And you have to feel for Miles as well; though he starts out distressed and upset by Paloma's murder, his emotions are torn in different direction after finding out about Paloma's hidden past. Where Paloma was a peripheral character, she is fully fleshed out here...and her past is not exactly covered in sweetness and light.

The series continues to be fascinating and strong. But don't begin with this story; you'll be confused. Start with The Disappeared and check Ms. Rusch's site for the order you should read them in.

If you're like me, you won't be disappointed. :-)
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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