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Places in the Darkness

By: Chris Brookmyre
Narrated by: Robin Miles
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Million-copy-selling Chris Brookmyre takes his fiction further than ever before in this wildly inventive and sharply-plotted novel set in the unforgiving emptiness of space.

Longlisted for the Mcilvanney Prize for Crime Writing 2018

"This is as close to a city without crime as mankind has ever seen."

Ciudad de Cielo is the 'city in the sky', a space station where hundreds of scientists and engineers work in earth's orbit, building the colony ship that will one day take humanity to the stars.

When a mutilated body is found on the CdC, the eyes of the world are watching. Top-of the-class investigator, Alice Blake, is sent from Earth to team up with CdC's Freeman - a jaded cop with more reason than most to distrust such planetside interference.

As the death toll climbs and factions aboard the station become more and more fractious, Freeman and Blake will discover clues to a conspiracy that threatens not only their own lives, but the future of humanity itself.

©2017 Chris Brookmyre (P)2017 Little, Brown Book Group Science Fiction Fiction Crime

Critic Reviews

"Fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful." (Iain M. Banks)
"Entertaining and intelligent." (Patrick Ness)

"Razor sharp." (The Big Issue)
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I'd not be surprised to discover that "Places in the Darkness" started out life as a taught novella. Its sci-fi premise is simple but effective, and the book really comes together in the last five hours. Unfortunately I feel that taught novella has been unnecessarily and excessively overstuffed in order to obtain novel status. Seriously, even Peter Jackson would consider this thing overlong.

The narration is very good, with a wide variety of character voices provided by Robin Miles.

If you happen to find an abridged version of this audiobook in the future, I'd recommend taking a look.

The last five hours almost make the rest worth it

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