Million-copy-selling Christopher Brookmyre takes his dark and thrilling fiction further than ever before - into the far reaches of space.
When a corpse is found during the construction of humanity´s first colony ship, mismatched investigators Freeman and Blake must find the culprit before they themselves become the next victims.
´This is as close to a city without crime as mankind has ever seen.´
There has never been a homicide on Ciudad de Cielo. It´s the ´city in the sky´, where hundreds of scientists and engineers live and work in Earth´s orbit, building the colony ship that will one day take humanity to the stars.
When the mutilated body of a common criminal is found on CdC, the eyes of the world are watching - multiple governments and corporations have a stake in catching humanity´s first spacebound killer. Top-of-the-class investigator Blake is sent to team up with CdC´s Freeman - a jaded cop with no interest in working with a rookie from Earth. But the mismatched duo must learn to cooperate quickly, before they become the killer´s next victims . . .
About the Author
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 authors. His Jack Parlabane novels have sold more than one million copies in the UK alone, and Black Widow won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston´s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award.