Book description
They say, “Never work with androids or children.”
Quirk had one job to do, deliver papers to a Milan mafia boss, before leaving Earth for his home in the asteroids. But that was before being tailed, poisoned—oh, yes—and hijacked into raising foulmouthed fourteen-year-old convent girl Angelika Moratti, aka Moth, who'd…
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1 author picked The Mandroid Murders as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
What a great overall take on the mafia-and-waif trope.
Quirk is gentleman for hire, more or less, who ends up on the wrong side of the mob. Moth is a foul-mouthed, recently orphaned former-convent girl who needs a guardian. The two end up stuck together, hunting down a killer android on the moon.
I mean, if that didn’t check off your list of everything you want in a book, I don’t know what will. There are gun fights, weird technology, fancy Merino suits, a bi-curious protagonist, cursing, and surprising emotional investment. The next book in the series apparently also has…
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