Headlong by Simon Ings

Headlong

Simon Ings

We all dream of visiting the moon, but how would we feel if we came back deprived and ill? How would we make ourselves better? An interesting read with the added bonus of a murder mystery to solve.

Extract
Was this the wound that had killed her? The fracture was colossal: it would have taken several blows with a lump-hammer to put a hole that size in her head. More likely, the coroner had widened the original head-wound during his post-mortem. I imagined the police, splitting her head like a coconut, searching for pirated accessories ....