When Araminta Sugar discovers a severed head in the level nine hydroponics section of Space Station Io, she is thrown into an adventure she never expected.A Short Book of the Dead is a pacy and exciting science-fiction crime thriller with a sense of humour. Told from the perspective of Araminta, an easy-going senior officer on the space station, the reader is taken on an intriguing journey with plenty of twists and turns.As Araminta finds herself on a mission to catch a killer, she is haunted by disturbing premonitions of her own death. Will she manage to escape what seems to be her inevitable fate or will her visions of falling to her death become a reality? And is this simply a murder mystery in space or is there something far more sinister happening beneath the surface?

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