Skotch is a Raccoon, PI in the underworld of a solar city. The humans live up top in comfort while genetically engineered animals take care of the menial jobs humans don't want to worry about anymore. A mouse has gone missing in this city, and Skotch has been hired to find him, but there's a lot more to this mouse and the case than anyone is willing to tell him. As the danger keeps growing, the more questions he finds.

The story is fascinating. The narration is fantastic. I'm just sadly not a fan of the way it's told.
The writing is good, and you can tell that Tchaikovsky thought long and hard about every single aspect of the world his characters inhabit becuase it reads like something that could be happening right now.
I was hooked on the case with Skotch and the way his search takes us through all the levels and societies that make up the world of the Little Helpers. I just had to continually rewind because I would zone out from the way it was being told. Not from John Pirhalla's narration, he did a great job of differentiating each character and giving depth to scenes. I just discovered that I'm not a fan of stories told in somewhat of an aside, where the characters stop everything to give you a massively long description of the minutia of everything that happened and is about to happen. I get that it's important information to impart, but I wish it were told in a more dynamic way.

Very happy thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the listen!