The Tea Master and the Detective

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The Tea Master and the Detective The Tea Master and the Detective

by Aliette de Bodard

Genre: Science

Published: 2018

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Once, the mindship known as The Shadow's Child was a military transport. Once, she leapt effortlessly between stars and planets, carrying troops and crew for a war that tore the Empire apart. Until an ambush killed her crew and left her wounded and broken.Now the war is over, and The Shadow's Child, surviving against all odds, has run away. Discharged and struggling to make a living, she has no plans to go back into space. Until the abrasive and arrogant scholar Long Chau comes to see her. Long Chau wants to retrieve a corpse for her scientific studies: a simple enough, well-paid assignment.But when the corpse they find turns out to have been murdered, the simple assignment becomes a vast and tangled investigation, inexorably leading back to the past—and, once again, to that unbearable void where The Shadow's Child almost lost both sanity and life... "The Tea Master and the Detective is the Sherlock Holmes retelling I always wanted and now I...

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