#13: Olivia Waite, Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1)

[kareila]

First in an upcoming series of cozy spacefaring mystery novellas, similar in theme to The Mimicking of Known Successes but much less academic in character. The setting is a spaceship on a centuries-long voyage, whose crew is repeatedly reincarnated thanks to the ability to store backups of their personalities and memories in Books, which are kept in a Library on the ship. One of the ship's detectives, Dorothy Gentleman, wakes up in another passenger's body when her Book is erased. There is a mystery to be solved, and she soon realizes that the person whose body she unexpectedly took over is the prime suspect. It's a great premise, and the reincarnation aspect is what gives it the "Memory Called Empire meets Miss Marple" blurb that caused me to pick it up.