What advice would you give to criminals?
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. . .here are my thoughts.
What advice would you give to criminals?
Chaos Terminal, by Mur Lafferty, is the second in her “The MidSolar Murders” series. Each book is marketed as a “murder mystery in space.” There certainly was a murder in this one. We don’t find out who committed the crime until the end of the book. The setting is a space station in—you guessed it—space. It would seem all the qualifications exist to name the series as such. And, sure enough, Mur went right along with the tried-and-true stepwise approach that mystery readers demand of the genre. Yet at no time did I care one iota who murdered the intractable asshole with no redeeming qualities. I found myself rooting for our Sherlock Holmes-esque detective to fail at her sleuthing this time. Late in the book, our assailant attempted to end the life of a woman who had been put on a pedestal—the antithesis of the douchebag corpse people would sooner piss on than shed a tear over. My thoughts on the murderer getting his just deserts shifted 180° when she was nearly killed. May this be a lesson to all criminals out there: only do bad shit to shitty people!