The Nearest - Orreadi

English language

Published Dec. 21, 2018 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-29431-9

(1 review)

When a detective, a new mother, is assigned to the case of a horrific triple murder, it appears to be a self-contained domestic tragedy, a terrible event but something that doesn’t affect the rest of the community. But it slowly becomes clear that something much darker may be at play, something that spreads out from the scene of the crime to corrode the closest relationships of everyone it touches.

2 editions

Soh Kam Yung reviewed The Nearest by Greg Egan

Tragedy strikes when the people you love become 'others'.

4 stars

A fascinating tale that starts off as a slightly futuristic detective story involving a shocking murder of a family and a search for the missing mother by a detective. But it suddenly switches gear when the detective discovers that the people she knows and love don't appear to be what they are.

The two sides of the story are obviously connected to the reader, but it would require the detective, in her new state, to continue with the investigation and connect the dots before coming to the same conclusion and figuring out how they might be connected.

A fascinating story about dealing with a world that suddenly appears 'wrong' and working through the evidence to come to the correct conclusion.

Subjects

Fiction, science fiction, space opera