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Hello everyone,
Here's an idea I've been toying with: A Terran Imperial Naval Intelligence officer (Earth and its colonies have a constitutional monarchy whose monarch has US-presidential-style powers) is assigned to an Embassy on a foreign world as the attache to the human ambassador. At a party, an important alien is killed.
The officer is assigned by the ambassador to discover who killed the 'man' before the alien's government retaliates. (there are extenuating circumstances that make this reaction plausible)
There is also a subplot: the officer, before the embassy assignment, returns from a deep space mission, to find out he has a son. The boy has been in an orphanage since the age of two (he's eleven now) because his mother killed herself. The hero asks for a 'calm' job, hence the embassy assignment. He and his kid need time to bond.
My question is this: How many deep space murder mysteries are there? I can't think of many. Someone suggested Blade Runner, but I don't remember the mystery there. LOL, I think of it as strictly an action movie.
Can someone suggest similar books I can look at? I don't want to accidently do something too cliche.
David
Here's an idea I've been toying with: A Terran Imperial Naval Intelligence officer (Earth and its colonies have a constitutional monarchy whose monarch has US-presidential-style powers) is assigned to an Embassy on a foreign world as the attache to the human ambassador. At a party, an important alien is killed.
The officer is assigned by the ambassador to discover who killed the 'man' before the alien's government retaliates. (there are extenuating circumstances that make this reaction plausible)
There is also a subplot: the officer, before the embassy assignment, returns from a deep space mission, to find out he has a son. The boy has been in an orphanage since the age of two (he's eleven now) because his mother killed herself. The hero asks for a 'calm' job, hence the embassy assignment. He and his kid need time to bond.
My question is this: How many deep space murder mysteries are there? I can't think of many. Someone suggested Blade Runner, but I don't remember the mystery there. LOL, I think of it as strictly an action movie.
Can someone suggest similar books I can look at? I don't want to accidently do something too cliche.
David