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Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960 and now lives in Somerset. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night’s Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, The Chronicle of the Fallers, short story collections and several standalone novels including Fallen Dragon and Great North Road.Thoroughly engrossing . . . <b>immensely satisfying</b>. An excellent book. One that engages the intellect as well as the emotions. A tale that drags the reader on a corkscrew rollercoaster ride of <b>dazzling imagination</b> and <b>electrifying excitement</b>
- <b><i>Starburst</i></b>,
A <b>genuine unalloyed pleasure</b>: I really cannot recommend this too highly, apart from dragging you out into the bookshops and sticking it under your nose
- <b>Ian McDonald</b>, author of <i>New Moon</i>,
A <b>genuinely fresh talent</b>
- <b>Stan Nicholls</b>, author of <i>Orcs</i>,
Peter Hamilton manages a very neat trick, combining deft scientific and social speculation with the <b>page-turning appeal</b> of the best thrillers
- <b>Tad Williams</b>, author of <i>The Dragonbone Chair</i>,
Hard SF <b>at its best</b> . . . Get this and read it
- <b><i>Critical Wave</i></b>,
A morbid assassination – or something even darker? A Quantum Murder by Peter F. Hamilton is the thrilling second book featuring Greg Mandel, the cyberpunk detective with psychic powers
Dr Edward Kitchener, respected quantum cosmology researcher, is found brutally murdered. His employers, Event Horizon, want to know what happened – and fast. Is it a gruesome killing or something far more sinister?
Greg Mandel, a once high-powered detective with psychic powers, is enticed out of retirement to take on the case. But Mandel's leads force him to confront the past. But – according to Kitchener's theories – this past might never have happened . . .
Challeging the very boundaries of reality, A Quantum Murder is an edge-of-your-seat space mystery from sci-fi legend Peter F. Hamilton,
A Quantum Murder is followed by The Nano Flower to complete the Greg Mandel trilogy.
Set in a near-future Britain destroyed by global warming, financial collapse and an authoritarian government, Peter F Hamilton's hugely popular Greg Mandel trilogy combines elements of classic detective novels with science fiction. The series, beginning with Mindstar Rising, follows the eponymous private detective as he uses his technologically-enhanced psychic abilities to investigate criminal activity.
Mindstar Rising
A Quantum Murder
The Nano Flower
'Thoroughly engrossing . . . immensely satisfying. An excellent book. One that engages the intellect as well as the emotions. A tale that drags the reader on a corkscrew rollercoaster ride of dazzling imagination and electrifying excitement' Starburst
'Hamilton appears as a full-fledged SF technician, able to manage the demands of the genre without working up a sweat' Locus