Halcyon Years - Alastair Reynolds

Category: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: Space Opera

Written by Alastair Reynolds
Read by Tim Treloar
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

A noir/science fiction fusion, strap in for a gripping murder mystery.

Yuri Gagarin is a private investigator, who picks up small cases from his local community, runs into trouble with the local police, and generally ekes out a living as best he can. He’s aboard the Halcyon—a starship, hurtling through space, carrying thousands of passengers with thousands more sleeping the journey away.

Only his usual investigative work—catching cheating spouses, and small-time con artists—is about to take a turn. He’s hired by a mysterious woman called Ruby Red to look into a death in one of Halcyon’s most elite families . . . and then warned off the case again by a second mysterious woman called Ruby Blue. Caught between the two, he’s about to be embroiled in a murder mystery in which—at any moment—he could be the latest victim.

Gollancz, Oct 2025
12 hours and 12 minutes