This was such a fun one! Dorothy wakes up and she realizes not only does she have no idea where she is, but she's not even in her own body! What a fun ride full of mystery and whimsy.

One of the things I got from reading this was that I need to read more stories about middle-aged woman detectives because I had such a good time reading this. The science fiction elements were also so cool, with the regenerating bodies and forever (almost) memory. And, even better, the fact that I’m pretty sure every single character was queer and the world was incredibly queernormative. The mystery itself had a good arc, and I found the whole thing very readable to the point that I ended up reading it all in one sitting without meaning to. It’s definitely worth the read, and I would fully read more stories about the mystery solving of Dorothy Gentleman!

During a magnetic storm, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn’t hers, with a murder to solve. Of course, because of the memory cataloguing system of the HMS Fairweather, no one really stays dead, they simply have to have their memory regenerated into a new body. But when those memories get erased, that person is gone for good. Something more mysterious is afoot, and it’ll take Detective Gentleman through several interesting characters to figure out what’s really going on. It’s funny, and the world that Olivia Waite has written was so interesting and cool to me. It’s cozy mystery with an easy to jump into science fiction world, and I highly recommend it!