Wormhole
By Keith Brooke and Eric Brown
Wormhole is a solid example of what has proven to be one of the most durable genre hybrids: the SF-detective story.
The year is 2189 and Gordon Kemp is an unprepossessing, middle-aged cop who has been banished to the cold cases squad of the London police. As unhappy as he is with his job it’s about to get a lot worse when he’s partnered up with a keen young detective named Danni Bellini and tasked with a very cold case indeed: a murder that took place 80 years earlier.
Normally this would make it a dead case, but a newly identified prime suspect has just come out of deep sleep after journeying to another solar system along with a shipload of passengers sent to colonize a planet named Carrasco. When a wormhole is opened between Carrasco and Earth, Kemp is sent out, reluctantly, to investigate.
There’s a formula being followed here, down to the odd-couple of buddy cops and the conspiracy of powerful interests working behind the scenes, but there’s a reason why SF mysteries have remained popular. The elements work so well together that it won’t be any surprise to see more of Kemp and Bellini coming soon.
Alex on SF 
The genre works well if it is written well. Zahn tried it with his Quadrail/Frank Compton series but he wrote so woodenly that it really crushed it.
Who published this? I didn’t recognize the little symbol in the upper right corner.
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That’s the Angry Robot symbol! They’re the publisher.
Yeah, you can always fall into the trap of just writing pure genre tripe. This was pretty good though.
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Thanks. I haven’t read much by them in recent years.
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I’ll add this to my list. Might get round to it in my coffin!
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I thought it was a good read. Maybe not one of the 1,001 books you need to read before you die though.
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Ah OK.
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What do worms call wormholes?
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Subways.
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