Who would want to kill a time-travelling librarian? Time-travelling police detective Erik Midgard thought he had changed his fate. But now he is burdened with new knowledge that suggests the future is more flexible than he thought. He might not have escaped his predicted destiny after all. To make things worse, he has another murder to solve. At the solar system's greatest university on the moon, a group of historians and their students are using time travel to recover the great lost libraries of ancient civilisations. Travelling back to times before these libraries were destroyed, they are secretly recording the contents of all the books and bringing the data safely back to the present. They have saved the entire collections of the libraries of Alexandria, Ctesiphon, Nalanda, the Serapeum, the House of Wisdom in Baghdad and the Mayan libraries of the Yucatan and have many more still to rescue. They have already learnt countless new facts about the civilisations that created these libraries and the project has so far been an unqualified success. But when the professor who founded the project is found dead, it very quickly becomes clear to Erik and his partner Mirabi that something else is going on. Newly promoted after their success at the Time Traveller's Ball, this should be a straightforward murder investigation. But the project's staff, students and security guards are all hiding more secrets than the libraries they have rescued contain, and at least one of them is prepared to kill to protect them. But as they search for answers, Erik starts to suspect that one of the secrets might just be a way to solve the unsolvable. And if it is, could it also be a way for him to save himself?

How do you solve a murder when every single suspect has a time machine? Time-travelling police officer Erik Midgard has a problem. He has seen his own future. His fate is set. There is no way out. There is nothing he can do to escape it. He is going to die. But in the meantime, he has a murder to solve. On the moons of Mars, 900 years into the future, the wealthiest men and women in the solar system are arriving for the biggest night in the social calendar. The invitations are exclusively for people rich enough to own their own time machines. It is meant to be the greatest party in history. No one is supposed to die there. But when the guest of honour is found dead after the last dance, Erik and his partner Mirabi find themselves facing the greatest challenge of their careers. Trapped in a luxurious mansion and surrounded by millionaires, lovers, enemies, assassins, terrorists, robot doubles, hidden grudges, secret agendas and a criminal genius plotting his masterpiece, Erik and Mirabi must solve the case before its consequences can explode across the solar system. But as they sift through the evidence and the details of the crime start to appear, Erik finds himself beginning to wonder. Is his destiny truly written in stone? Or could there be a way for him to change it? A Wattpad Featured Book Selected by the BBC for their official Doctor Who reading list.

Kates Leben zeichnet sich durch stumpfsinnige Büroarbeit und Tagträumereien aus. Iris Leben ist das genaue Gegenteil. Frei wie ein Bytwang durchstreift sie das Weltall auf der Suche nach dem nächsten Abenteuer. Zumindest bis ihre ehemalige Vertraute sie aufspürt, entführt und ihr wortwörtlich das Herz stiehlt, um es einem Roboter einzupflanzen. Und weil Iris offensichtlich noch nicht genug Probleme am Hals hat, wird sie auch noch dazu verdonnert, Kate zur Erde zurück zu transportieren, als diese eines Abends (einem bürokratischen Fehler sei Dank) in eine Raumstation am anderen Ende der Galaxie stolpert. Der Flug zurück zur Erde ist keine ungefährliche Aufgabe, denn trotz aller Schönheit ist das Weltall alles andere als ein Spielplatz - wobei Weltraumpiraten, allwissende Steinwesen, fühlende Roboter und geniale Hacker eindeutig das kleinere Übel sind mit dem Kate und Iris sich herumschlagen werden. Denn Iris will ihr gestohlenes Herz um jeden Preis zurück. Und Kate ist diejenige die ihr bei ihrem Vorhaben helfen muss. - Wattys Winner 2020 - - Dream Book Award Winner 2021/22 -

"Ängstigt euch nicht vor dem Tod, denn seine Bitterkeit liegt in der Furcht vor ihm." - Sokrates Vielleicht hatten sie Angst. Wahrscheinlich würden sie sterben. Aber aufgeben würden sie ganz sicher nicht. Das Labyrinth würde sie nicht brechen. Sie würden wieder zu ihren Familien heimkehren und einen mächtigen Goldschatz im Gepäck haben. Sie würden überleben. Wie unglaublich falsch sie doch lagen.