Junkyard
a Fractured Stars adventure
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4.2 • 14 Ratings
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Publisher Description
McCall Richter works as a skip tracer, tracking down criminals, con men, and people who stop making payments on their fancy new spaceships.
Her job description says nothing about locating vast quantities of stolen maple syrup, but thanks to her helpful new android employee, she finds herself tramping through a “sugar house” on a frosty moon full of suspicious characters. The only witness to the crime? The junkyard dog next door.
Junkyard is a stand-alone novella set two years before Fractured Stars.
Customer Reviews
The dog lives
McCall is an autistic bounty hunter/investigator. She's an expert in tracking down people who've eluded capture. Only … her new personal assistant, Scipio, has signed her up for a job tracking down 200 tons of missing maple syrup.
Part whodunnit and part science fiction. Think Asimov's Caves of Steel with the (very welcome) addition of a 150-pound adorable failure of a guard dog.
If Goodreads allowed half stars, I'd take half a star off for failure to include a content warning that there would be reference to horrible animal cruelty. Go ahead and kill all the fictional people you want, but if you harm one hair on a dog's head, I will never forgive you. If the dog had died, I'd have put the author straight onto my never-again list. I'm happy to report, she's going on my favourites list instead.