Book description
On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony's erudite university - and Mossa's former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth's pre-collapse ecosystems.
Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to…
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1 author picked The Mimicking of Known Successes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a murder mystery set on a series of moody habitats orbiting Jupiter—connected by trains (and I’m a huge fan of trains!).
The main character is an academic trying to figure out how to make Earth habitable again when an old girlfriend knocks on her door and asks for help solving a crime.
I enjoyed how the world-building played into how the characters found clues to the crime—and the twists that followed. Most of all, I loved the coziness with comfy apartments, warm fires, and baked goods.
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