Olivia Waite is a new to me author and I was pleasantly surprised. It was a quick, easy listen with great narration and an intriguing premise and plot. If it's meant to be a series, I look forward to the next installment.

An intriguing premise. Body snatching, but with SciFi. A technological development that frankly scares me! Imagine going about your day and suddenly your mind inhabits a different body. How would you navigate finding the truth and interacting with people? I hope the series continues and we’re able to learn more!

The audiobook is narrated by Blair Baker. She is easily understood at faster speeds; however, this novella is short with a fair amount of details, you might want to keep it at a slower speed.

Thank you NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, and author Olivia Waite for the ALC in exchange for my honest review.

Nothing I love more than a mystery without police, a mystery without jails, and here in Detective Dorothy Gentleman I have found a new delightful series. While this book sets up more mysteries to come for Detective Gentleman, it's a solid murder mystery in its own right. I cannot wait to read more of her adventures.

Notes and observations about MURDER BY MEMORY:
-I love an older woman main character, especially as the detective
-solid, interesting side characters
-gayyyyyyy 😍🌈✨
-tightly written mystery
-novella length worked for me; great scene-setting in a short time
-makes you think a lot about bodies and what it's like to live in them
-made me want to pick up my crochet project
-great narration by Blair Baker!
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I think this might be #1 in a series, and I hope that's true! I want more!

Love! The book was interesting and cozy, the narration was spot on. Cannot wait to read more!! Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review

🌌 BOOK REVIEW 🌌

MURDER BY MEMORY by Olivia Waite
4/5 🌟
Pub date 🇺🇸: Mar 18

If you are looking for a short SciFi read in a world with an interesting setting and even more interesting people, this novella is for you! I was really impressed with how Wait was able to pull the reader into the story in just a short amount of time. I will say, there were parts I had to reread to understand exactly what was going on in this complex world, but it was worth it.

This story follows a space detective who wakes up in the wrong body. The reader untangled the web of lies and deceit as she uncovers the clues on board the giant space ship.

Please read of you like the following:

🕵‍♀️ Agatha Christy in space
🕵‍♀️ Queer representation with a hint of betrayal
🕵‍♀️ The problems that come along with being transfered from body to body
🕵‍♀️ Yarn

I really enjoyed this short novella. I really enjoyed the overall feel of this and hope that there will be more to come. It was really clever and felt very original. The memory library sounded like such a fascinating invention that I would have loved to learn more about. Honestly, I really wanted this book to be much longer than it was. The characters were intriguing and captured my attention very easily. The cozy mystery was also quite fun to try and piece together. I am hoping that this novella captures the interest of others as well because I would love to see this become a longer series!

I listened to the audiobook and have to also say that the narrator, Blair Baker, did a fantastic job with inflection and characterization. I found her voice suited the story very well. I will be looking into more of her narrated works in the future.

I would like to thank Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for allowing me to listen to this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

3.5 stars
I enjoyed this novella. An amateur detective on a spaceship awakes in a new body that was not hers, But in fact belongs to someone murdered. This is told from her pov and is part mystery part nostalgic love story. Very low stakes. Personally, I could have used much more world building but you're not necessarily going to find that in a novella. I listened to this in one shot and the narrator did a good job of pulling me in, after I picked a higher playback speed.

It was, like many low-stakes fantasy/sci-fi, pretty predictable. I guessed the ending basically right away. However, I did like some of the explanations on how the ship/world worked.


**Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for an eARC of this book in exchange for my honest review**

I love cozy mysteries, I love cozy sci fi, and I've enjoyed Olivia Waite in the past, so this was a perfect quick novella for me. The concept was so cool with memory books and impermanence of death except in the event of deletion. I really enjoyed Dorothy's character and the way her mind works. Loved the queerness with no homophobia. I think this will be a great series to read!

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for the opportunity to read and review!

What a lovely bite-sized cozy sci-fi mystery! It provided a good puzzle, clever world-building, and interesting characters. I'm so happy it's going to be a series!

I quite enjoyed revisiting this story by audiobook! I previously read an eARC of this titled and loved the story. It’s so cozy and heartwarming while still being a fast-paced and interesting mystery.

The audiobook narrator does an excellency job at keeping in tone with the cozy atmosphere of the book. I found the narration soothing while still brining color and vibrancy to the characters.

Thank-you so much to the publisher and NetGalley for letting me listen to an advanced copy of this audiobook!

I really enjoyed listening to the audiobook of this novella. I'm not usually a huge mystery fan when its in a novella format, but I was pleasantly surprised by this. I liked following the characters and being part of the journey. I think I would've enjoyed this more if it was longer since I wanted to know more about the ship and its occupants, but I still had a fun time. If you're looking for a light, fun, quirky, and queer novella, then I'd recommend checking this out!

Thank you to Tor and Netgalley for this ALC!

3.5 stars (rounded up)

Thank you to @macmillan.audio for providing me a copy of this audiobook. All opinions are my own.

A sapphic detective-auntie who knits solving a murder mystery in space! This was definitely a fun and cozy little novella snack.

In this world, when you die, your mind is saved in the library until your new body or you ready to get back out there.

Definitely an interesting concept, and since minds don’t really die (unless they are deleted…👀) it for sure makes the “murder” aspect a lot less permanent. 🤭

I forsee a future of fun cozy mysteries in the future of this series.

Audiobook notes: Great! I thought Blair Baker did a great job!

What this book is giving:
✅ Cozy Sci-fi Mystery
✅ Novella
✅ New Body
✅ In Space
✅ Detective
✅ Mind Library

Rating:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ / 5

Short and sweet Chrstie-esque murder mystery set on an inter stellar colony ship where memories are stored and bodies can be replaced. I loved the inner monologue of the self deprecating but clever investigator and the great world building. A really nice sci-fi palette cleanser!

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for my copy. These opinions are my own.

This was a very fun cozy little mystery! At only about 2 hours, it was a really quick audiobook. I enjoyed the narration and thought they brought the story to life. I appreciated how much was in this book, despite being so short - it was a full mystery from start to finish and nothing about how it ended or unraveled felt too convenient. My only complaint is that I wish it was longer as that would have allowed me to actually feel connected to our MCs.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!

MURDER BY MEMORY is the cozy sci-fi mystery I didn’t know I needed.

Imagine being able to download your memories—your entire personality—into a new body. And when that body grows old and fails, you just hop on over to a new body.

But that doesn’t mean murder doesn’t happen. In fact, one bizarre murder is exactly what our main character, Dorothy Gentleman, is trying to solve.

This is a short book, listed at 112 pages, and the audio is just over two hours. The plot isn’t complex, but it’s unique and it definitely held my interest. I thought this was a fun start to a promising new series.

Blair Baker does a fantastic job with the audiobook narration.

*Thanks to Macmillan Audio for the free audiobook download.*

A quick and fun cozy murder mystery in space.

I do like the added layer of a locked room for these but it was a bit short (2h). Worth a try!

A fun mixture of two of my favorite genres: mystery and sci-fi. For a short book I felt that the characters were well-developed, as was the world building. A fun concept, I would definitely read more books by this author.

This appears to be Olivia Waite's first book in the cozy mystery category, and I think she did a great job. The world building for the spaceship and how it operates was excellent. I would definitely read a second book to learn more. That is part of the downside though. This was a very short book. It is hard to get into the world and invest in the characters in 100 pages. Hopefully future books are longer to be able to expand on this good start. The audio narrator was very enjoyable if you prefer audiobooks.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and Netgalley for sending me an early copy of this audiobook! All opinions are my own!

This was a short read that was very enjoyable and fun to experience! It was exciting in the mystery aspect and gave characters who were fun to get to know and yet deeply relatable.

I wish this had been a longer endeavor, as it was a really interesting concept, so I can't wait to see where things might go from here!

If you're looking for sci-fi with a touch of mystery, this is the book for you!