The Scifi-punk Bookfeed

Multiple Award nominated, must read sci-fi thriller! Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty, from Orbit Books, published January 2017 This is a locked room murder mystery in space among the six crew members of a colony ship headed to a new world. But one of them is a murderer. They awake to find their previous clone bodies murdered, the ship off course and the ship's computer intelligence offline. As the story progresses on the ship, as each crew member works through mounting tension, we are taken into the backstory of each crew member which deepens the characters and simultaneously makes each of them seem a more likely suspect. Each crew member is a criminal in one fashion or another, and they all have a common link! By far, the most fun and exciting and engrossing book I read in 2018. Its extremely well thought out and kept me on the edge of my seat, turning pages rapidly! This book is just so much fun to read, keeps you guessing to the end and kept the tension ratcheted. This is a...

A lighthearted fun adventure for young teens or tweens. I Have A Hunch by Jeremy DeCoursey, Self-Published, out November 2019 This is a quite charming, young teen mystery that sometimes occasionally becomes a little silly. (Which the author freely acknowledges) Our heroine visits her eminently famous, private detective Uncle as a summer job. Her uncle then gets hired to solve a murder, and Alice, our protagonist, is swept along investigating the site, interviewing witnesses, all of whom seem suspicious. Eventually even running afoul of the murderer and having to try to apprehend the killer while not becoming the next victims! But all is brought to a happy conclusion. Running in the background is another more curious mystery, one that is not resolved in this book but appears to be setup to run throughout a series, of which this is the first book. There are many classic Holmesian tropes in play here: Alice's uncle is the brilliant detective, Alice is a Watsonish every-pe...