Rosetta: A Jim Meade Martian P.I. Novel

By R.J. Johnson

Jim Meade solves murders on Mars. He does not do space travel. So of course the one case that could get him killed is waiting on an asteroid a hundred million miles from home.

They call the rock Rosetta, and it holds the most valuable mineral in the solar system: ORI, harder than diamond, rarer than gold, and the only reason a single ship can fly in space. When a Consortium scientist turns up dead in an accident nobody believes, the man's family hires the one detective with no loyalty for sale. Jim Meade. Runabout, ex-prizefighter, and reluctant passenger on a ship bound for the cold dark he swore he would never enter.

What Meade finds on Rosetta is worse than a murder. Miners, mercenaries, and zealots are already at each other's throats over the richest prize in the system, and someone at the center of it is playing for stakes far higher than money. As the factions close in and the bodies pile up, Meade realizes the whole colony is a fuse, and it is burning toward a catastrophe big enough to end worlds.

To stop it, a man who never picked a side will have to face the one thing that scares him more than any warlord: the killing vacuum of open space, with every last life in the balance riding on him.

Perfect for fans of the frontier grit and wisecracking crew of Firefly, hard-boiled noir with the collar turned up, and big-stakes space opera that never forgets to have fun.

Rosetta is the second adventure in Jim Meade: Martian P.I., where the whiskey is homemade, the frontier is a hollowed-out asteroid, and a simple murder is never just a murder.

In this book:

A hard-boiled detective with his own private code of rules, dropped into the deep dark he hatesA locked-room murder on a mining asteroid that cracks open into something enormousSci-fi meets the Wild West: mercenaries, zealots, and a lawless frontier rockA morally gray hero who still cannot quite hide his good heartFast, funny, and rip-roaring, with a final act that never lets up

Murder, betrayal, the fate of humanity. It's all in a day's work for Jim Meade, Martian P.I. Scroll up and continue the series today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1490417001
• ISBN13: 9781490417004
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"