Duplicate Effort
May. 11th, 2022 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearThis is the next in the Retrieval Artist series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and I enjoyed it just as much as the others.
Miles Flint works to help people who have had to disappear, in order to escape draconian alient justice systems - though he doesn't actually do that very often, and not at all in this book. The story here is about the murder of an investigative reporter who has worked with Flint in the past, and also about Flint's developing relationship with his daughter, Talia, who has only been in his life for six months.
After the initial action, not that much actually happens in the book. Flint, Van Alen (his lawyer), DeRicci (his old police partner), Nyquist and Romey (two detectives), and Wagner (an evil rival lawyer) all investigate different aspects of the case, pretty much in isolation - checking records, interviewing various people, looking stuff up online, etc.
And, eventually, it all comes together in a very satisfying way.
Despite the lack of any real action after the first few pages, I really enjoyed the way it all progressed, and I particularly enjoyed the different relationships and in-depth character analyses that were explored.
The next book in the series is already on my purchase list!
Miles Flint works to help people who have had to disappear, in order to escape draconian alient justice systems - though he doesn't actually do that very often, and not at all in this book. The story here is about the murder of an investigative reporter who has worked with Flint in the past, and also about Flint's developing relationship with his daughter, Talia, who has only been in his life for six months.
After the initial action, not that much actually happens in the book. Flint, Van Alen (his lawyer), DeRicci (his old police partner), Nyquist and Romey (two detectives), and Wagner (an evil rival lawyer) all investigate different aspects of the case, pretty much in isolation - checking records, interviewing various people, looking stuff up online, etc.
And, eventually, it all comes together in a very satisfying way.
Despite the lack of any real action after the first few pages, I really enjoyed the way it all progressed, and I particularly enjoyed the different relationships and in-depth character analyses that were explored.
The next book in the series is already on my purchase list!
