Lethal Orbit: No one leaves the station until the killer is found

About the Author

SHARRON NOVA writes science fiction mysteries set at the edge of the plausible, where the technology is real and the reasons people hurt each other are even more real. Before turning to fiction, she spent more than a decade working in aerospace operations, supporting satellite missions and long-duration flight programs, and she holds a degree in aerospace engineering. The experience gave her two things she never lost: an affection for the people who keep complex machines running, and an abiding respect for what happens to human judgment when the environment will not forgive a mistake. Both are visible on every page of *Lethal Orbit*, her debut novel.

She came to mysteries by a roundabout route, reading her way through the locked-room tradition after years of mission logs and technical reviews convinced her that the most interesting stories in space are the ones involving the people inside the vehicles. Her research for this novel included interviews with engineers and flight controllers, a careful reading of long-duration mission accounts, and the forensic literature on how crime scenes behave in microgravity. She lives in Colorado, where the high desert under a clear night sky is a good standing reminder of how small and precious any closed world is. When she is not writing, she volunteers with STEM education programs and keeps a running list of ways to make space stations more suspicious, one module at a time. Readers can reach her through her author website and can join her newsletter, *Orbit Lines*, for early news about new releases and the occasional short story set in the same universe as the station.