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    Buried Deep: A Retrieval Artist Novel

    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    “Wonderfully plotted and written, this fourth entry in Rusch’s Retrieval Artist series is a compelling read.”
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    A cold case starts it all—human bones discovered beneath the Martian soil in the alien Disty’s main city. The Disty evacuate, believing the area contaminated. Forensic anthropologist Aisha Costard investigates and discovers that the bones belong to a woman last seen thirty years before.

    But the woman didn’t vanish, nor did anyone believe her dead. She Disappeared, along with her children, after being charged with crimes against an alien civilization. Costard believes the children hold the key to this mystery, but she can’t find them on her own. So she returns to the Moon to hire Miles Flint.

    As Flint investigates, events move swiftly around him, and suddenly what began as a simple murder case turns into an incident that might destroy the entire solar system....

    International bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has won two Hugo awards, a World Fantasy Award, and three Asimov’s Readers Choice Awards. IO9 called her six (so far) bestselling, award-winning Retrieval Artist novels one of the top ten science fiction detective series ever.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateJun 7, 2011
    ISBN9781452457895
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    Buried Deep: A Retrieval Artist Novel
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake.  She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

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    • 4/5
      The cases continue for Miles Flint and Noelle DiRicci and in a circuitous way that remains interesting. This time the mystery surrounds a human gravesite (which goes from the discovery of one skeleton to mass grave from a massacre years ago) on Mars that sets off an epic freak out of the Disty that renders them incapable of rational thought to the point that they act in ways that ensure their deaths & others. It's not pretty. An Earth anthropologist, Aisha Costard, is unknowingly caught up in the "contamination" as she came to help with the investigation of a skeleton found & she brings the case of identifying the skeleton to Flint as she & the remainder of the medical examiner team are all on the hook to be exterminated for their "contamination". On the Moon, Noelle is trying to settle into her new position as the head of security of the Domes and reporter, Ki Bowles is doing her level best to hinder her at every turn.

      I enjoyed reading this one quite a bit but I admit that there were some things I wished were fleshed out more. I still don't know why Ki is so very opposed to DiRicci. I thought she'd see some sort of sense when she was shown reason and evidence or when she spoke to DiRicci's detractors (who had their own credibility & ethics problems) but she didn't. And she didn't even bother to research the Disty to get anything like an explanation for their behavior. I was hoping she'd find herself & her freelance team "contaminated" for just having the conversation about the contamination because that's a thing with the Disty apparently. I suppose it's simply a matter of Ki being able to make her own name and advance herself using DiRicci and nothing more.

      I also wished to have learnt more about the Disty. I felt like I lacked enough information about them and understood how daunting this was for the human characters. I liked that I learned what I did learn about the Disty as the characters did. On the other hand, it's said repeatedly that the Disty are extremely private & were so offended when asked probing questions in aid of understanding them that I wondered if they were really interested in diplomacy or transaction at all. They seemed to feel they knew everything about humans (they didn't as admitted by one near the end) but didn't want to share anything about themselves but wanted to hold everyone to their expectations and rules. I don't know why humans have agreed to this situation, as it's not clearly laid out what they're getting out of these arrangements. If I'm honest, I was completely turned off and offended by the feckless leaders the humans appointed. It wasn't even that they were too deferential to the Disty (I didn't have enough information to make that assessment) it's that they were completely ineffectual in every situation they were presented with. They were more worried about their personal position than in actually helping anyone or doing anything that might be considered work. It wasn't a surprise view of some politicians but it was a reminder of how much it irritates me. While the Disty frustrated me, I still thought there might be something I was missing with their actions and demands. There was no question about the political humans on Mars or Earth. I love a good political dig in, in my science fiction so I hope there are some worthy of their positions in future books.

      As with the other books, there's a solution that works out and the case is solved by our heroes so no real surprise there but still a solid story and I still want to spend more time in this universe. So, I will do. Recommended.
    • 4/5
      Good plot with lots of twists.
    • 4/5
      I'm enjoying this series. These aliens are so deliciously alien. They really don't feel like humans in costume. Rusch is really trying to give us a sense of sentient beings that think other, and don't rate humans too much either... More explorations of how the laws and cultures clash, and more problems for Miles Flint and his friend and ex partner Noelle DiRicci. This time a mass grave is found on Mars and this drives the Disty (which I persist as reading ditsy!) mad, and a total panic ensues. Flint works to save the day but watching how the various politicians interact is even more interesting. I'm hunting up more of her books!
    • 4/5
      Another good book. As usual, I could put it down during the first 50-100 pages. After that, I was hooked…again. So I sit here at almost 1:30a, knowing I have to get up in less than 6 hours…but it was all worth it. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoy this series. So odd, and yet so very likely, when trying to get along with aliens, who are, you know, really alien.
    • 4/5
      Buried Deep is the fourth book in Rusch’s science fiction mystery series, the Retrieval Artist novels. The first is The Disappeared, but you could likely read Buried Deep as a stand alone if you wished. Each novel contains a separate mystery, although all are set in the same world and involve two of the same characters – Miles Flint and Noelle DeRicci.In Buried Deep, a forensic anthropologist is summoned to Mars to inspect a human skeleton found under a section of the city belonging to the Ditsy, an alien species which practically rules Mars. The Ditsy have strong cultural taboos surrounding death, believing that all who come into contact with a body are contaminated. The forensic anthropologist soon learns that unless she can find living relatives of the dead woman to preform a ritual cleansing ceremony, she and the other investigators will be killed to cleanse the contamination. Desperate, she turns to retrieval artist Miles Flint.Here I need to explain a bit of the background of the world. The future universe imagined by Rusch contains many different alien species and cultures, which come together for trading and diplomatic purposes under the Alliance. To allow all these species to interact, the laws state that someone who commits a crime against an alien species will be subject to that species laws, which are often far more severe than human punishments and sometimes extend to the relatives of the perceived criminals. Services called “Disappearance” companies arose, which professionally hid people from alien justice systems. Trackers are bounty hunters who go after the disappeared. The flip side of the coin is retrieval artists, who look for disappeared to notify them of important information such as an inheritance or an acquittal but who also strive to keep the disappeared safe. Miles Flint is one of these such investigators.While the situation on Mars is developing, detective Noelle DeRicci of the Moon’s Armstrong Dome must decide whether she takes a promotion to a political position that would nominally give her authority over the entire Moon. She and Miles Flint are on opposite sides of the law even if they often agree about what the right thing is.I find this to be the best entry to the series since the first book, largely because it finally gets back to the ideas involving the aliens which drew me in so much. Buried Deep is fast paced and almost more of a thriller than a mystery. It shows a wide range of POV to depict the ongoing chaos caused by the situation on Mars. This means that while Miles Flint is the protagonist, he has less than fifty percent of the page time. While this could have weakened the novel, I think it actually worked very well by giving a clearer picture of the developments and the relations between the humans and the Ditsy.The Retrieval Artist series has been one of the most enjoyable and fun science fiction series I’ve come across, and it’s a pity that they are so little known. I’d highly recommend Buried Deep to anyone looking for a fast paced science fiction story involving aliens.Originally posted on The Illustrated Page.