Space Planet: or when there's no more crime to solve

By Stephen Toman

Space Planet, Or When There's No More Crime to Solve

One murder. Two criminals on the run. And a whole lot of ghosts.

Space Planet is a wild ride that pulls you along by the bellybutton on a whimsical, hysterical journey through the sights, sounds, and smells of Scotland. When a hapless murderer and his criminal caretaker flee a nameless council estate for the breathtaking Highlands, they think they've found the perfect escape.

If only it wasn't for the wind.

In lukewarm pursuit are a pregnant police officer and her partner-who is still nursing the painful trauma of his recent indoctrination into the Jaffa club. To make matters worse, our two criminal dropouts pick up a few hitchhiking ghosts along the way, leading to a climactic showdown beneath a solar eclipse.

"Stephen Toman knocks it out of the park with this brilliant play on the classic road trip genre. Perfect for fans of Chris Brookmyre, this is a book you shouldn't read in bed-unless you want to wake the whole house with your laughter."
--Alex Reynolds

"Space Planet represents Stephen Toman at his searing best - thrilling, imaginative, hilarious, genre-merging fun On one level an engrossing police procedural featuring cops and criminals of equal depth and dimension, juxtaposed with a riveting foray into the supernatural, featuring the thoughts and activities of an unforgettable cast of ghosts. Devoured this book; Callum McSorley meets Percival Everett "
--Foday Mannah, award-winning author of The Search for Othella Savage

The new novel from Stephen Toman, the author of Mushroomhead and Badwater, Space Planet is a post-crime road novel, In Bruge meets The Detectorists, about masculinity, curiosity, austerity, and remembering that we live on a planet, in space.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZD6RFMY
• ISBN13: 9798266627208
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"