Andrew Kuchling<p>THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES by Malka Older is set on a human colony on Jupiter where all of humanity lives on a set of floating platforms connected by monorail tracks, now that Earth is uninhabitable. </p><p>Police investigator Mossa begins her new case: a university academic goes to a remote platform and then disappears. Did he swan-dive into the planet's center, and why? The investigation may be tied to the academic's research -- a major focus of study is the lost ecosystems of Earth, in hope of some day restoring them -- so Mossa seeks out Pleiti, an old schoolmate and romantic interest who's also an academic.</p><p>This was a likable mystery in a setting that you figure out as you go: there are<br> no exposition dumps explaining everything. Mossa has some Sherlockian quirkines<br>s, and there's a low-key romance between the two female leads.</p><p><a href="https://dmv.community/tags/TheMimickingOfKnownSuccesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMimickingOfKnownSuccesses</span></a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/MalkaOlder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalkaOlder</span></a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/SherlockHolmes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SherlockHolmes</span></a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/GenderFlip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderFlip</span></a></p>