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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Jul 31, 2018 | 9780356506272 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Nov 9, 2017 | 9781405537360 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Nov 9, 2017 | 9780356506265 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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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.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE FOR CRIME WRITING 2018SHORTLISTED 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.
'Excellent hardboiled noir . . . absolutely gripping' SciFiNow
'An ingenious crime story' Scotsman
As smart as it is gripping, this is a terrifically engaging story from start to nerve-shredding finish Big Issue
'Places in the Darkness is another corker of a murder mystery, [Brookmyre's] new setting - with which he's clearly having a whale of a time - giving him the opportunity to wow us with an even twistier twist than usual' Guardian
Praise for Places in the Darkness
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As smart as it is gripping, this is a terrifically engaging story from start to nerve-shredding finish - Big Issue
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Excellent hardboiled noir . . . absolutely gripping - SciFiNow
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An ingenious crime story - Scotsman
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Places in the Darkness is another corker of a murder mystery, [Brookmyre's] new setting - with which he's clearly having a whale of a time - giving him the opportunity to wow us with an even twistier twist than usual - Guardian
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A fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful blend of science fiction and techno-thriller
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Brilliant
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Ingenious
Chris Brookmyre
Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of his award-winning debut Quite Ugly One Morning, which established him as one of Britain's leading crime writers. His 2006 novel All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye won the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize, and his 2016 novel Black Widow won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. He also co-writes historical crime fiction with his wife, Marisa Haetzman, under the pen name Ambrose Parry..
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