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Blair Baker
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Olivia Waite
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Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, helmed by a no-nonsense formidable auntie of a detective
A mind is a terrible thing to erase...
Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty's most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are included, new bodies are graciously provided upon request, and should you desire a rest between lifetimes, your mind shall be most carefully preserved in glass in the Library, shielded from every danger.
Near the topmost deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn’t hers—just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship’s detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fairweather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot.
Dorothy suspects her misfortune is partly the fault of her feckless nephew Ruthie who, despite his brilliance as a programmer, leaves chaos in his cheerful wake. Or perhaps the sultry yarn store proprietor—and ex-girlfriend of the body Dorothy is currently inhabiting—knows more than she’s letting on. Whatever it is, Dorothy intends to solve this case. Because someone has done the impossible and found a way to make murder on the Fairweather a very permanent state indeed. A mastermind may be at work—and if so, they’ve had three hundred years to perfect their schemes...
Told through Dorothy’s delightfully shrewd POV, this novella is an ode to the cozy mystery taken to the stars with a fresh new sci-fi take. Perfect for fans of the plot-twisty narratives of Dorothy Sayers and Ann Leckie, this well-paced story will leave listeners captivated and hungry for the series’s next installment.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.
©2025 Olivia Waite (P)2025 Macmillan AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused with a thinking creature that is not human? That is something else. But now Deniau's been dead a year, and Rose House is locked up tight, as commanded by the architect's will: all his possessions and files and sketches are confined in its archives, and their only keeper is Rose House itself. Rose House, and one other.
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Bad Plot
- By xon69 on 10-22-24
By: Arkady Martine
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Two Truths and a Lie
- A Novel
- By: Cory O'Brien
- Narrated by: Tim Lounibos
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In a mostly underwater near-future Los Angeles, aging combat-drone veteran Orr Vue now lives a simple and small life, trading snippets of what's become the most valuable currency: information. So when the cops show up at his door looking for data on a murder he’s not even aware has happened, things get interesting for the first time in 25 years.
By: Cory O'Brien
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The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
- Feminine Pursuits
- By: Olivia Waite
- Narrated by: Morag Sims
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the countess of Moth, looking for someone to translate a groundbreaking French astronomy text, that she knows where to go. Showing up at the countess’ London home, she hoped to find a challenge, not a woman who takes her breath away.
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Great F/F Romance
- By Haley on 07-17-20
By: Olivia Waite
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The Prince Without Sorrow
- Obsidian Throne, Book 1
- By: Maithree Wijesekara
- Narrated by: Aasiya Shah, Kishore Walker
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Prince Ashoka is the youngest son of the tyrannical Emperor Adil Maurya. Considered an outcast by his father for his rejection of the emperor’s brutal onslaught against the witches of the empire, Ashoka longs for change. When the sudden and unexpected death of his father leaves the monarchy in disarray, Ashoka is sent to govern a tumultuous region annexed by Emperor Adil that is terrorized by nature spirits—a task many see as doomed to fail.
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Amazing Characters, Heart Pacing Storyline
- By Jan on 04-13-25
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The Ten Worst People in New York
- By: Matt Plass
- Narrated by: Sanya Simmons, Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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A late-night TV chat show feature, The Ten Worst People in New York, is the talk of the town. When a real estate mogul on the Ten Worst list jumps to his death, it could be a coincidence. But after a corrupt NYC councilor, also on the list, dies suspiciously, recently widowed Special FBI Agent Alex Bedford suspects foul play. Young British filmmaker Jacob Felle arrives in New York to connect with his estranged sister, Elizabeth, and to reconcile a long-buried family trauma. But Alex and Jacob are on a collision course.
By: Matt Plass
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The Saint Laurent Muse
- A Novel
- By: C. W. Gortner
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s the 1970s, and from hippie London to Warhol’s Factory in New York, reluctant aristocrat Loulou de la Falaise is desperately seeking adventure. Having escaped an early, unhappy marriage, she arrives on a whim in Paris—the champagne-soaked heart of the fashion world, where the rigid old world of haute couture and the fast-paced new world of ready-to-wear are vying for supremacy. Glamour, sex, and cocaine nights fuel the Paris fashion scene. Its crown prince is the soulful and intensely gifted Yves Saint Laurent.
By: C. W. Gortner
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Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot
- Winner Bakes All, Book 3
- By: Alexis Hall
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Audrey Lane is perfectly fine. Really. So what if she left her high-powered job as a Very Important Journalist—and her even higher-powered long-term girlfriend—to live a quiet life as a reporter for the second-biggest newspaper in Shropshire? And so what if she keeps hearing that same higher-powered long-term now-ex-girlfriend in her head night and day, constantly judging just how small Audrey's allowed her life to become? She's fine. She's happy. She's perfectly within her groove. Do not-in-their-groove people get weekday drunk and impulsively apply for the UK's most beloved baking show?
By: Alexis Hall
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Under Lock & Skeleton Key
- A Secret Staircase Mystery
- By: Gigi Pandian
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj’s career, and life, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather’s Indian home-cooked meals. Though she resists, every day brings her closer to the inevitable: working for her father’s company. Secret Staircase Construction specializes in bringing the magic of childhood to all by transforming clients’ homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, backyard treehouses, and hidden reading nooks.
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Don’t listen at regular speed!
- By Chibiusa on 05-08-22
By: Gigi Pandian
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Aunt Tigress
- By: Emily Yu-Xuan Qin
- Narrated by: Jen Zhao
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Tam hasn’t eaten anyone in years. She is now Mama’s soft-spoken, vegan daughter—everything dangerous about her is cut out. But when Tam’s estranged Aunt Tigress is found murdered and skinned, Tam inherits an undead fox in a shoebox, and an ensemble of old enemies. The demons, the ghosts, the gods running coffee shops by the river? Fine. The tentacled thing stalking Tam across the city? Absolutely not.
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Hidden Desire
- Alive with Desire: A Lesbian Medical Romance Series
- By: M.T. Cassen
- Narrated by: Kira Grace
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Spoiled-brat Stassi sails through life on striking looks and Daddy’s wealth. Until her world falls apart. Daddy's financial luck runs out, and the glam life drifts out of reach. Stassi, at 25, needs a real job, stat. From the catwalk to a hospital's receptionist desk: broken nails will be the least of the platinum blonde's problems. Enters Sage, 38, hospital manager, a green-eyed butch goddess of practicality and social justice. The chemistry between them is hellfire: addictive and infuriatingly irresistible.
By: M.T. Cassen
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The Haunting of Room 904
- A Novel
- By: Erika T. Wurth
- Narrated by: Ina Barrón
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Olivia Becente was never supposed to have the gift. The ability to commune with the dead was the specialty of her sister, Naiche. But when Naiche dies unexpectedly and under strange circumstances, somehow Olivia suddenly can’t stop seeing and hearing from spirits. A few years later, she’s the most in-demand paranormal investigator in Denver. She’s good at her job, but the loss of Naiche haunts her. That’s when she hears from the Brown Palace, a landmark Denver hotel.
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No Thanks
- By NicoleAnn08 on 04-17-25
By: Erika T. Wurth
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I Can't Dance Alone
- By: maggie brown
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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When Sarah Phillips lands on top of Harriett Roberts in an overturned car it’s not an ideal first meeting. The overwhelming confusion she feels threatens her plans for a fresh start as a doctor in the Australian Outback. Veterinarian Harry Roberts doesn’t need some pretty city girl rocking her world. The Outback is no place for lightweights. One touch, one unguarded look. The future could be promising, if neither of them had a past.
By: maggie brown
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Animal Instinct
- By: Amy Shearn
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire and lust for a new life refuse to be contained. Leaning on her best friend Lulu to show her the ropes, Rachel dips a toe in the online dating world, leading to park dates with younger men, flirtations with beautiful women, and actual, in-person sex. None of them, individually, are perfect . . . hence her rotation. But what if one person could perfectly cater to all her emotional needs?
By: Amy Shearn
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The Wrong Side of Sundown
- Sunset Station, Book 1
- By: Gene Doucette
- Narrated by: Steve Carlson
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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It’s Sunset Station! Where astronaut Kris Standard and her crack team of fellow astronauts work tirelessly to bring us the future of space travel for a fraction of the cost! On Sunset Station! cost-effectiveness is baked into in the design specs! Really! “Ask not how to do it, ask how to do it for less” is our motto! When it comes to Sunset Station! keeping six people alive in space on a budget is no problem! Just as long as everything continues to work exactly right! Because if something goes wrong…? Dear God, nothing better go Sunset Station! Nothing ever goes wrong! Ever!
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Really good start
- By Amazon Customer on 04-08-25
By: Gene Doucette
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- Katrina
- 04-16-25
Hope This Series Takes Off!
Murder by Memory is the first in (what I hope will be a long) series for ship’s detective Dorothy Gentleman, whose consciousness is thrust into another person’s body with a murder to solve. Though short, this book is as cozy a mystery as you could hope for…only set in space!
The ancillary characters are wonderful, representation is good, and there’s enormous potential for this series. It gives me major Murderbot Diaries vibes (though it’s not exactly similar), so you know I’m loving that. Really looking forward to seeing what comes next.
*Side Note: although I really liked the narrator, there were several glaringly mispronounced words, that I thought should’ve been caught in the production process.
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- Gordon Franklin
- 03-21-25
Great story. I want more in this universe
very well narrated, good characters, wonderful works building, a smart thought provoking story. I really enjoyed this book and truly hope there's more coming set in this world. my only complaint is that it's short. Definitely worth buying
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- Marie S.
- 03-29-25
Fun cozy mystery set in space
I listened to “Murder by Memory” by Olivia Waite and I loved it. The narration by Blair Baker was also excellent. It’s a charming short novella with a good mix of science fiction and cozy mystery - starring a sapphic lead and including an all queer cast.
I loved the contours of the society that the author created onboard the generation ship too - the people who were valued and paid the most were librarians, teachers, custodians, and medical staff.
Olivia Waite is known for her sapphic historical romances, but this story is not a romance and is a sapphic cozy murder mystery set in space. The world building was very good. It’s a short novella (100 pages in print or 2 hours and 21 minutes in audio) and the author did a great job setting the background, developing the characters, and solving the mystery in that timeframe. This is the first book in a series and I am looking forward to the next one.
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