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Cover of Piper Deez and the Case of the Winter Planet


Detective Piper Deez, newlywed but still hardboiled, is a solar system away from home investigating murder and thievery on Alta-na-Schell, the Winter Planet. Who can she trust? Who should she trust? Why didn't anyone tell her monogamy was going to be this difficult? Eye of the Storm, a domed city riven by clan rivalries and corruption—with only fingerlengths of shielding protecting its denizens from certain death—may hold some answers and, perhaps, even the end of Piper Deez.

If monogamy doesn't get to her first...


Piper Deez and the Case of the Winter Planet is a hardboiled scifi mystery by M. Fenn; Piper Deez is sent to investigate thefts on a mining planet owned by the clan that she serves, where there are definitely no factions, no bubbling undercurrents of resentment, and only a few murders.

Hello, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, lesbian detective fiction is where I live. Piper Deez and the Case of the Winter Planet was always going to be my jam.

Full review available at The Lesbrary.

[Caution warnings: partner abuse, abuse of power, police harassment, oppression]
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Cover of Rocket Girl


The NYTPD sent her to 1986 New York City to investigate the Quintum Mechanics megacorporation for Crimes Against Time. Piecing together the clues, Dayoung Johansson discovers the "Future" she calls home--a
high-tech alternate reality version of 2013--shouldn't exist at all!


I really wanted to like Rocket Girl. A teenage police officer comes back from her glossy high-tech dystopian 2013 to investigate a company for committing CRIMES AGAINST TIME, which somehow involves crashing a student project? And solving regular crime with her rocket pack?

I'll be honest, I read the entire thing and I have no idea what the hell was going on in Rocket Girl. I understood tiny snippets of the plot, but nothing that I could actually put together into a narrative. The art is cool, I love the colours, but I don't get it. Not even in a "This is too weird for me" way, literally in a "I think I missed a chapter somewhere that explained the plot" way. I'm going to find someone to explain it to me like I'm five, and then maybe I'll come back and be able to give it a more thorough review.

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