- Title:
- Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2)
- By:
- John Scalzi
- Pages:
- 4
- Rating:
- 4
In the world of the Dispatchers, a natural or accidental death is an endpoint; a murder pushes the do-over button and 99.99{ba150db230079cbbfb17b34eb2fb313f10dd1319d8aee46c92c08114bdec094f} of the time the victim comes back to life. Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher who’s been taking shadier and shadier gigs in financial tough times, and after witnessing a crime gone wrong, he finds people around him permanently dying in a way that implicates him. He has to solve the mystery of these deaths to save the lives of others–and keep himself out of trouble with the law.
I kinda wish we’d had more background on what causes dispatching to work after the first of these, but enjoyed this a lot nonetheless.