Saw this noted over a Locus. The Eos branch of Harper Collins is for a limited time offering Emissaries from the Dead, the first book in the Andrea Cort series, for free via download. It’s written by Adam-Troy Castro, a former Nebula, Hugo and Bram Stoker award nominated author and was published earlier this year.
Here is the synopsis of Emissaries from the Dead:
Two murders have occurred on One One One, an artificial ecosystem created by the universe’s dominant AIs to house several engineered species, including a violent, sentient race of sloth-like creatures. Under order from the Diplomatic Corps, Counselor Andrea Cort has come to this cylinder world where an indentured human community hangs suspended high above a poisoned, acid atmosphere. Her assignment is to choose a suitable homicide suspect from among those who have sold their futures to escape existences even worse than this one. And no matter where the trail leads her she must do nothing to implicate the hosts, who hold the power to obliterate humankind in an instant.
But Andrea Cort is not about to hold back in her hunt for a killer. For she has nothing to lose and harbors no love for her masters or fellow indentures. And she herself has felt the terrible exhilaration of taking life . . . .
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