Lockdown has enabled us to put the finishing touches on the next Calvin Lake Dispatch: Redlands. I’m currently finishing preparations for publishing, so you can expect to see it available by Wednesday.
Redlands is a murder mystery in the form of a journalistic investigation into the deaths of beloved science popularizer Silas Hudson and his producer Carrie Altenham on March 5, 2047.
When famed science presenter Silas Hudson and his companion are brutally murdered while visiting Redlands, an isolated settlement on Mars, settlers take the law into their own hands. The justice they seek carries greater danger than the crime, however, and their actions threaten to conceal another crime with far-reaching consequences.
A double murder threatens the social cohesion of a remote Martian settlement, and in the process exposes a troubling secret.
It’s a pity about Hudson, though. The more we wrote about him, the more unfortunate it was that we had to kill him.