“Travel by Bullet” is the third book in John Scalzi’s “The Dispatcher” series, a sci-fi premise where people murdered by another human simply disappear and reappear, naked and unharmed, in the place they consider home. Previous books explore how even with humanity no longer able to murder themselves, creative (for evil) people can find loopholes and torture themselves to death.
This time the novella, a printed version of the original audiobook narrated by Zachary Quinto, is more a corporate detective mystery than a sci-fi. Several high-profile denizens of Chicago are embroiled in the murder (although if you can’t murder people, how did it happen?) of a tech genius.
Two law enforcement agencies, competing businesspeople and even a former mobster have interests in the case, which involves a crypto key, the theft of a body and more.
The novella is good as usual, although the change of plot might put you off.
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