The 5th Gender: A Tinkered Stars Mystery

A species that has no word for murder, has a murderer aboard their spaceship.

New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger (writing as G.L. Carriger) brings you a cozy sci-fi mystery featuring an adorable lavender alien with noodly hair and his human crush.

ALIEN

Tristol lives in exile. But he’s built a life for himself aboard a human space station. He’s even begun to understand the complex nuances of human courting rituals.

Detective Hastion is finally flirting back!

MURDER

Except that Tristol’s beloved space station is unexpectedly contacted by the galoi – a xenophobic species with five genders, purple skin, and serious attitude. They need the help of a human detective because there’s a murderer aboard their spaceship. Murder is so rare, the galoi don’t even have a word for it.

Tristol knows this because he is galoi.

ROMANCE

Which means that he and Detective Hastion are on the case… together.