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"A whole lot of fun, made more enjoyable by the return of original protagonist Bob Howard. Other pluses are that Stross weaves backstory throughout, and his very informative Afterword is well worth reading." Permalink

"There's a fair amount of unnecessary verbiage, and too much telling rather than showing. But if you can get past the awkward writing, you might enjoy this standard-issue detective story set in space." Permalink

"While the characters are well drawn, the motive for the murders is too easy to figure out (if you're at all familiar with 18th-century history), as are all of the subsidiary questions. The only real mystery is the manner in which the victims were ..." Permalink