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The Real-Town Murders

Adam Roberts

3.53/5 (495 ratings)

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Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy to spend their lives plugged in, and the country is decaying.

Alma's partner is ill, and has to be treated without fail every 4 hours, a task that only Alma can do. If she misses the 5 minute window her lover will die. She is one of the few not to access the Shine.

So when Alma is called to an automated car factory to be shown an impossible death and finds herself caught up in a political coup, she knows that getting too deep may leave her unable to get home.

What follows is a fast-paced Hitchcockian thriller as Alma evades arrest, digs into the conspiracy, and tries to work out how on earth a dead body appeared in the boot of a freshly-made car in a fully-automated factory.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 240 pages

Publication:: 2017

Publisher:: Gollancz

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 147322148X

ISBN13:: 9781473221482

kindle Asin:: B072V4YM83

The Real-Town Murders

Adam Roberts

3.53/5 (495 ratings)

Read Download

Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy to spend their lives plugged in, and the country is decaying.

Alma's partner is ill, and has to be treated without fail every 4 hours, a task that only Alma can do. If she misses the 5 minute window her lover will die. She is one of the few not to access the Shine.

So when Alma is called to an automated car factory to be shown an impossible death and finds herself caught up in a political coup, she knows that getting too deep may leave her unable to get home.

What follows is a fast-paced Hitchcockian thriller as Alma evades arrest, digs into the conspiracy, and tries to work out how on earth a dead body appeared in the boot of a freshly-made car in a fully-automated factory.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 240 pages

Publication:: 2017

Publisher:: Gollancz

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 147322148X

ISBN13:: 9781473221482

kindle Asin:: B072V4YM83

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