The Reinvented Detective, written by Jan Yolen and Kat Rambo, these are all well crafted crime stories set in the future and or alternate universes from one with the cast system to another that if you cannot pay for your assaulter to go to prison, then he can go free to many others. They’re brilliant, intelligently done, quirky, and I couldn’t get enough of them. I couldn’t get over how well done and imagine the stories were and so kudos to the author. I really really loved the stories. If you’re a fan of fun mysteries with quirky plots and an even quirkier set up then you will definitely love the stories. There wasn’t one of them. I didn’t like. I usually always find something that is a negative in a book, but I can honestly say I found none of that in the reinvented detective. It was just brilliant, every story was a good one!!! #NetGalley, #TheBookWhisperer, #TheReinventedDetective, #JanYolen, #CatRambo,

I did not care for this anthology. I guess I just wasn’t a fan of the stories the authors selected. Also I was not expecting the Seanan McGuire entry to be a poem. I am rarely in the mood for poetry.

This was a very enjoyable collection of science fiction detective mysteries by some very talented writers. There's not a bad story in the bunch, all were smartly written and fun to read, but my favorites in the bunch were The Best Justice Money Can Buy by C. C. Finley, and Agents Provocateur by Lazarus Black. If you like hard sci fi and whodunnit mysteries, give this one a try.

I received this DRC from NetGalley.

This was a really good collection of scifi detective mysteries. It is split up into three sections - Reports, Artifacts, and Judgements. I liked the first 2 sections more, but overall, the stories presented very different worlds really well, especially for being short, and came to satisfying conclusions. Since they were all by different authors, there was a lot of variation between stories, which kept it interesting.

An excellent collection of sci-fi detective stories. I enjoyed all the stories in this anthology, which I feel hasn't been the case for many recent anthologies I've read --I'll have to look into their previous anthology, The Reinvented Heart. Several people have already summarized a number of the stories so I'll just agree that I wish a few particular stories were longer and found a few new (to me) authors I enjoyed. For those who prefer a specific type of sci-fi, many of these stories lean toward the AI/virtual reality type. Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the eARC

This was a very interesting and fresh anthology with a lot of very fun stories. Editors Cat Rambo and Jennifer Brozek have skillfully curated a group of stories that play on or subvert a wide range of both classic science fiction themes and classic detective story genres. We've got world weary noir detectives, cyberpunk cops, AI Miss Marple, and gene spliced amateur detectives reckoning with generation ships, miniature dinosaurs, augmented humans, virtual reality, and just a whole lot of murders. Overall a wildly imaginative anthology.

As with any anthology there were some ups and downs. The book started off extremely strong, but got a little bogged down in the middle with a few stories that didn't work for me, before revving back up for a very strong finish. I'll definitely be checking out future books in this series and will be on the lookout for other works by many of the contributors.

Highlights for me:
- To Every Seed Their Own Body by Guan Un
- The Unassembled Ones by Peter Cline
- The Best Justice Money Can Buy by C.C. Finley
- Someone Else's Device by AnaMarie Curtis
- Coded Out by Frog and Ester Jones
- The Gardener's Mystery: Notes from a Journal by Lisa Morton
- Gum5hoe by Carrie Harris

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with this book for review!

A number of excellent authors, an anthology of short stories well plotted and well done.
I enjoyed it and it's strongly recommended
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I love Anthologies but I've never really read one like this. The combination of mystery and science fiction works incredibly well and may now be one of my favorite genre mashes. This mixed with the detective trope made The Reinvented Detective a fun read. I also really enjoyed each story and loved to see each author's interpretation and reinvention of the trope. Now, not every story takes place in a time far away, but some are like our modern society with a little more advanced technology. I find these stories intriguing as I feel like it may be achieved. Of course, with that being said I did like when they really leaned into the science fiction aspect and you see the creativity start to really flow. While I did not have a favorite story there were ones that I wish would be expanded upon or even made into a book series.

Overall, a very entertaining anthology that I wouldn't mind getting more of.

"The Reinvented Detective" edited by Jennifer Brozek and Cat Rambo is an highly enjoyable collection of 22 science fiction detective/crime stories.

Although I did like all of the stories, mini-reviews of my favorites include:

- "The Best Justice that Money can buy" by C.C. Finlay -- How can justice be realized in a future where money can literally purchase justice?
- "Coded Out" by Frog and Esther Jones -- How powerful or even dangerous is a ubiquitous networked computer system with VR headsets that can directly modify brain chemicals?
- "Agents Provocateur" by Lazarus Black -- A freelance detective saves the day with unexpected help from AI Holo sapiens personal assistants.
- "Great Detective in a Box" by Jennifer R. Povey -- An AI demonstrates her ability and makes a friend while assisting with a murder investigation on Mars.
- "Color Me Dead" by E. J. Delaney -- A private detective solves a murder mystery in a virtual reality via a text adventure interface with some guidance from a cooperative AI.
- "Overclocked Holmes" by Sarah Day and Tim Pratt -- A quantum computer based genuine artificial consciousness pairs up with a human to solve crime.
- "Inside, Outside, Above, Below" by Premee Mohamed -- A leet rogue hacker teams up with an FBI agent to save humanity from another hacker in a dystopian future Vancouver.
- "To Every Seed Their Own Body" by Guan Un -- Murder investigation and the future of the crew on an interstellar spaceship.
- "In the Shadow of the Great Days" by Harry Turtledove -- A doctor investigates an unusual death in a post apocalyptic Boston hundreds of years from now.

I recommend this to fans of either science fiction or detective stories. I STRONGLY recommend this to readers that are fans of both genres.

I thank the publisher, editors, and authors for kindly providing a temporary electronic review copy of this collection.

The Reinvented Detective is the second anthology of future changes that could happen, this time to crime fighters in various bodies, minds or other forms of existence. Every story makes one rethink the tried and true detectives of our time. An excellent collection!

A very good anthology! This collection is the second in a series and the theme is detectives and crime in either science fiction or speculative fiction settings. I really enjoyed this so much and will seek out the prior book to read and look forward to the next in the series.

I don't want to spoil the stories and as always with anthologies, what a reader likes varies. So I'll mention my favourites and of course you mileage may vary.

My Favourites:

The Best Justice Money Can Buy by C.C. Finlay - in a future where the wealthy can pay someone to do their time for them, one officer figures out a way to clear two criminals under one name. A great story.

The Gardener's Mystery: Notes From A Journal by Lisa Morten - in a future where people are genetically modified for their slot in society, a gardener seeks to exonerate of their employer of charges they went on a demeaning screed against lower caste members. Very good story that I figured out and broke my heart for the narrator a little.

Someone Else's Device by AnaMaria Curtis - a good story about the theft of a tech prototype device that can remove habits. I liked this one simply for the detective's blind spot and how it interacted with their other abilities but still allowed them to figure out the solution.

Coded Out by Frog and Esther Jones - in a future where dopamine hit administered through code directly into the brain is highly illegal and homicidal endeavour but also part of a monetized system which is always seeking more revenue an officer figures out a way to uncover it via the ultimate sacrifice. Very good story.

Murder at the Westminster Dino Show by Rosemary Claire Smith - Best in Show with toy dinosaurs, what else do you need? Great story.

The Unassembled Victims by Peter Clines - in which there are two classes of people and a detective duo (one from each group) solves a case of what is serial murder and theft of body parts. Good story.

Great Detective in A Box by Jennifer R Povey - in which a detective on Mars gets familiar with his new partner, an AI named MARPLE. Definitely a favourite.

Color Me Dead by E.J. Delaney

The Unremembered Paradox by Maurice Broaddus and Bethany K Warner - in which a detective in Quantum Investigations tries to correct the timeline. A very good story with a twist at the end.

Go Ask A.L.I.C.E. by Lyda Morehouse - I don't even know how to describe this one without spoiling so just know, I really enjoyed it.

Request to Vanish by Lauren Ring - A very good story. Won't spoil.

Dead Witness by Marie Bilodeau - fantastic story. I really loved the detective recitation of names in a quest to stave off the encroaching dimming of faculties.

To Every Seed Their Own Body by Guan Un - a very good story. I won't spoil but the culprit was masterful.

In the Shadow of the Great Days by Harry Turtledove - Excellent.

Gum5how by Carrie Harris - Excellent and a little heartbreaking as the victim of a murder is part of the sentence of the guilty.

The Remaining (perfectly good work, just not my favourites):

The Missing C: Police Report #1 by Jane Yolen
Ghosts by Seanan McGuire - nah.
Agents Provocateur by Lazarus Black - nope.
Overclocked Homes by Sara Day and Timm Pratt
Final Judgment by Jane Yolen
We Are All Ourselves Inside Our Skin by Sam Fleming
Inside, outside, Above, Below by Premee Mohamed

Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the Advance Reader Copy.

The Reinvented Detective is a great anthology of science fiction. The anthology features stories that examine scenarios in the future of crime and justice in a world of advanced technology and artificial intelligence. I found the stories diverse, imaginative, and engaging.

I was drawn to this title because I love science fiction and wonder what a world in the future would look like with advanced technology. The forward, written by Jennifer Brozek, serves as a great introduction. She discusses her childhood love of mysteries such as Encyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew, which also were also some of my favorite series.

The anthology is well structured, and well edited, and each story offers a unique perspective and style while maintaining tone and quality..

The Reinvented Detective is a must-read for fans of science fiction and mystery, as well as anyone curious about how technology will shape our society and morality in the years to come.

As is typically the case for story anthologies in my experience, The Reinvented Detective, part of an anthology series edited by Cat Rambo and Jennifer Brozek, was a mixed bag, with stories ranging from excellent to good to flat at best. All of the stories are set in the future, though the time spectrum runs from the relatively near-future to a few decades to a far-flung future of interstellar travel. Settings move from the “real world” to the virtual one (sometimes within the same story), and the detectives themselves vary wildly, from your usual hard-bitten human cynic to Ais to genetically engineered to robots/clones. The short but sweet take is the book is worth a read overall, even if I’d only put eight of the nineteen stories into the good/excellent category. The book started out pretty strong, hit a real lull for me in the middle, then regained some momentum in the latter tales. A few specifics:


“The Best Justice Money Can Buy” by C.C. Finlay: Plotting was a bit predictable, but I
quite liked the premise: a for-profit law enforcement/judicial system whereby police departments are self-funded by “asset forfeitures, arrest fees, jail fees, fines … If the victims had money, they would pay the police to pursue the criminal and the district attorney to prosecute. If the criminal had money, they would pay to get a more favorable result.” I wouldn’t have minded delving into the social/personal impact of such a system more.

“The Gardeners Mystery: Notes from a Journal” by Lisa Morton: Another mostly predictable plot (that was a common issue in the collection as a whole for me), but again, I liked the premise (a genetic caste-like system—think Gattaca if you’ve seen that movie) with an engaging main character and an effective close.

“Murder at the Westminster Dino Show” by Rosemary Claire Smith: Another one where the premise, bespoke bred miniature dinosaurs competing ala Best in Show save the judge is murdered, is better than the execution, which was pretty robotic in its mystery solving.

“The Unassembled” by Peter Clines. This was probably my favorite overall, tight, tense, and with strong characterization

“Color Me Dead” by E.J. Delaney. Another excellent story, this one done in the form of an old text adventure computer game. The detectives need to “play” via that format to solve the locked-room crime adds a nice dimension to the mystery rather than simply acting as a gimmick. Excellent execution.

“To Every Seed Their Own Body” by Guan Un. Another locked-room mystery, this one set on a “seedship”, a generation ship grown via “plant DNA infused with nanotech; trees dreaming themselves into spaceships.” An intriguing setting, an excellent character creation (the detective, called “The Translator”, is created in a pod and “seeded into a human body”), though again, and a strong close even if the solution was a bit predictable.

“In the Shadow of the Great Days” by Harry Turtledove. I didn’t care much for the mystery or its resolution, but Turtledove creates a wonderfully rich future world in not many pages, depicting a several-centuries-in-the-future Boston long changed by the impact of climate change and a character bemoaning how much knowledge “they” (we) had back in the “Great Days.”

“Gumshoe” by Carrie Harris: a short, bleak-but-good noir tale making use of classic noir characters and tropes.

I love good short story collections, and I knew this was probably going to be good when I saw the list of contributors.
At first, I didn't think I was going to like this, because the first stories were depressing, such as the one where someone is stealing people's talents. But several stories were incredibly clever and some also brought out a sense of nostalgia. I definitely laughed a few times. I especially enjoyed the tiny dinosaurs and the Miss Marple AI.
Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this.

Take your classic detective story and twist it into a pretzel! Toss in AIs, augmented humans, a text-based murder mystery, talking mini-dino solving mysteries at a Best in Breed event. Now you are starting to get the concept of this title! The authors can play in multiple ways on the concept of the detective while putting their own spin on the various tropes associated with the detective story. There are partner stories, there are thrillers and the last story is very, very noir! The tome is a bit like a can of Pringles, you likely to read more than one!

Thanks Netgalley for the chance to read this title!

Really Enjoyed some of the stories in this anthology. I love SCIFI and love detective stories so this was right up my alley. Enjoyment for each story varied by author and writing style. I wish I could stay in some of these worlds just a bit longer. Will definitely be checking out these authors' other works,

This second strong anthology from Brozek and Rambo after The Reinvented Detective offers diverse and well written fantastical detective stories from a range of both well known and newer authors. Stories tend to be more near future than not and examine social and technological change through the lens of detective stories. Genres include post-apocalyptic, lots of AI-centric stories, and a space tale. Favorites included the Finlay, Clines, Broaddus and Warner, Day and Pratt, and Tutledove. Poetry by Jane Yolen and Seanan McGuire round out the well selected mix.

A fun group of short stories. The stories contain different and unusual elements Look for who pays, unusual pets and blue skinned detectives. That is just a few covered in the book. I found the book hard to put down.

The Reinvented Detective is an anthology of Science Fiction that tells mystery/crime stories as they might occur/be investigated in the future. While they all pretty much include, if not entirely driven by, future technology, the stories range all over the place, from noir/hard boiled detective to action flick and lots in between. Though not all of the tales were in my wheelhouse, I did find that they were all pretty decent, with about half being very enjoyable. If I had to pick favorites, I would say Peter Cline's "The Unassembled Detective" and Marie Bilodeau's "Dead Witnesses" stood out the most to me.