After atlas

Carlos Moreno is a Govcorp detective on an Earth that sent the starship Atlas away forty years ago. He was a baby when it left, and its departure shaped his life: his mother went with it, and his father lost hope afterward.

Alejandro Casales, leader of a religious cult called the Circle, once came to the family's door because of Atlas. Now Casales is dead in his hotel room, one of the most powerful men on Earth, and Carlos is put in charge of finding the killer.

The case lands on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of the departure. Carlos is expected to set his personal history aside, but the investigation keeps pulling him back toward it.

The science fiction murder mystery shares a universe with Planetfall. The deeper Carlos digs, the clearer it becomes that Casales's death has hidden layers, and that Atlas carries a darker legacy than anyone on Earth has realised.