Murder by Memory
{4.5/5} “Murder trials were quite different when the victim could be brought in to testify in court — or when the shipmind could subpoena the killer’s own memories as evidence. One victim had even been able to name her murderer, since she’s realized she’d been poisoned and managed to make it to the Library and update her memory-book in the last instants before her body’s death.”
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite, published in 2025
Dorothy wakes up in a different body and the ship, Fairweather, informs her of two emergencies. Dorothy’s memory-book has been erased and a passenger is dead. Dorothy thinks the two are related and she becomes suspicious of the woman whose body she’s in. After checking out the body, she goes to see her nephew, who’s one of the people in charge of the ship.
This is a novella. It has a Station Eternity flavour to it.
It’s about getting to the bottom of wildly unusual things.
This is the 1st book I’ve read by Waite.