Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi

Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi

I really like the Dispatcher series. Each short mystery involves in some important way the unexplained and possibly miraculous new reality that people who are murdered or killed intentionally—come back to life. But they aren’t resurrected where they are killed, they are magically transported to the place they feel safest in the whole world. This process which no one understands, works 999 out of a thousand times. And it doesn’t include suicides.

 

In this story, our hero has two mysteries to solve. One is why a person he considers to be a friend threw himself out of a moving car. And the other is why a tech billionaire committed suicide at a ritzy party. Along the way, Scalzi gives us another good look at how this new resurrection ability is corrupting society. The title of the story is a clue to one of the ways that corruption expresses itself.

 

I find this series refreshing and I hope Scalzi will give us more of them.