Shoemaker has written a great scifi mystery. I was drawn into the plot and could not put the book down. I thought the characters were well developed and the novel was definitely believable. I am looking forward to sequel.

While this book started out fairly strong, it did not stick the ending for me. My biggest issue was how large the society became before they implemented policing; even on another planet, it would have been necessary far sooner than happened in the book. Perhaps had I read the first in the series, it would have made more sense.

Classic crime investigator scifi on Mars. I've read in two days and it has been very entertaining in the middle of the pandemia (coronavirus), even though it started looking as not relating cases and quite slow. Because first 80 pages or so are basically an introduction and pulse taking, but from then on action starts to accelerate until it shots to arrive to a quite surprising final.

In between so many murders we have Rosie and Nico, whose marriage looks like it's on the verge of rupture in the worst possible moment and an electoral fight between Libertists and Realists to control power in Mars' bigger city, with the Saganist as deciding factor. Fight that looks like it superseding resolving the crimes to grab the power and looking good on the media.

Besides the slow start, the way they have to reach conclusions doesn't convince me. Which doesn't take for me to having like it.
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Cifi clásica de investigación de crímenes en Marte. Me la he ventilado en dos días y me ha resultado entretenidísima con tanta pandemia, aunque al principio parecía que iba a ser una colección de casos desalvazados y que no empezaba. Porque las primeras 80 páginas o así son más bien un poco introductorias y de tomar el pulso, pero, a partir de ahí, la acción comienza a acelerarse y se dispara hasta llegar a un final un tanto sorprendente.

Entre medias de tanto asesinato tenemos a Rosie y a Nico, cuyo matrimonio parece que pende en la cuerda floja en el peor momento posible y una lucha electoral entre los libertistas y los realistas por hacerse con el poder en la ciudad más grande de Marte, con los saganistas de fiel de balanza. Lucha que parece anteponer alcanzar el poder y salir bien retratado en los medios que resolver los crímenes.

Aparte de lo del inicio lento y deslavazado, la forma que tienen de atar cabos no termina de convencerme. Lo que no quita para que me haya gustado