1908. A gruesome death on board the Sky Liner RMS Macedonia exposes the clash of class, secrets and sexuality in upper class Edwardian society.
On her journey home Maliha Anderson, Anglo-Indian daughter of a Scottish engineer and a Brahmin scholar, hopes to make peace with her past, her future and what she sees in the mirror every day - until the nurse of wheelchair-bound General Makepeace-Flynn is murdered.
The General declares his innocence and Maliha is the only one to believe his story. With landfall in India only hours away Maliha must find the real murderer before the culprit can escape, even though doing so puts her own life at risk
This is the first book in the Maliha Anderson murder mystery series set in a steampunk alternative history. The other books in the series are also available on Amazon.
The Maliha Anderson series reading order:
Murder out of the Blue (Book 1)
Blood Sky at Night (Book 2)
Halo Round the Moon (Book 3)
Wind in the East (Book 4)
Thunder over the Grass (Book 5 - due May '15)
Under the Burning Clouds (Book 6 - due Sep '15)
The Taliesin Affair (Book 0 - due Jan '16)
This book is part of the collection of works that take place in the Voidships setting. What if, in 1843, Sir Michael Faraday demonstrated his Principle for the Partial Nullification of Gravity to the Royal Society? Well, the rest is alternate history. Categories: Murder mystery series; Mystery thriller; Steampunk detective; female protagonist, Indian authors, Indian fantasy, Steampunk novels kindle, Steampunk alternate history.
Review
"This is a well-executed mystery with a distinct Victorian air about it which works well with the setting of the story. ... It all came together in a fantastic finale ..." ~ The Review Hart
From the Author
Hi, thanks for checking out Murder out of the Blue (the first in the Maliha Anderson series).
This steampunk tale is part of a steampunk fantasy series set in the Voidships setting.
What's Steampunk? The quickest answer is "Victorian Science Fiction" and the pretentious answer is "Retro-futurism". But more importantly where the "steam" part represents science and industry, the "punk" part represents rebellion. Steampunk novels tend to involve people breaking out of the strictures of society, and who needs to break out more than women?
What's Voidships? It's just a word we use to describe an entire steampunk fantasy series where, in 1843, Faraday demonstrated the partial nullification of gravity - and everything else is steampunk alternative history.
I hope you enjoy my stories.
About the Author
When he's not sitting at his computer building websites for national institutions and international companies, Steve Turnbull can be found sitting at his computer building new worlds of steampunk, science fiction and fantasy. Technically Steve was born a cockney but after five years he was moved out from London to the suburbs where he grew up and he talks posh now. He's been a voracious reader of science fiction and fantasy since his early years, but it was poet Laurie Lee's autobiography Cider with Rosie (picked up because he was bored in Maths) that taught him the beauty of language and spurred him into becoming a writer, aged 15. He spent twenty years editing and writing for computer magazines while writing poetry on the side. Nowadays he writes screenplays (TV and features), prose and computer programs.
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1908. A gruesome death on board the Sky Liner RMS Macedonia exposes the clash of class, secrets and sexuality in upper class Edwardian society.
On her journey home Maliha Anderson, Anglo-Indian daughter of a Scottish engineer and a Brahmin scholar, hopes to make peace with her past, her future and what she sees in the mirror every day - until the nurse of wheelchair-bound General Makepeace-Flynn is murdered.
The General declares his innocence and Maliha is the only one to believe his story. With landfall in India only hours away Maliha must find the real murderer before the culprit can escape, even though doing so puts her own life at risk
This is the first book in the Maliha Anderson murder mystery series set in a steampunk alternative history. The other books in the series are also available on Amazon.
The Maliha Anderson series reading order:
This book is part of the collection of works that take place in the Voidships setting. What if, in 1843, Sir Michael Faraday demonstrated his Principle for the Partial Nullification of Gravity to the Royal Society? Well, the rest is alternate history.
Categories: Murder mystery series; Mystery thriller; Steampunk detective; female protagonist, Indian authors, Indian fantasy, Steampunk novels kindle, Steampunk alternate history.
Review
"This is a well-executed mystery with a distinct Victorian air about it which works well with the setting of the story. ... It all came together in a fantastic finale ..." ~ The Review Hart
From the Author
Hi, thanks for checking out Murder out of the Blue (the first in the Maliha Anderson series).
This steampunk tale is part of a steampunk fantasy series set in the Voidships setting.
What's Steampunk? The quickest answer is "Victorian Science Fiction" and the pretentious answer is "Retro-futurism". But more importantly where the "steam" part represents science and industry, the "punk" part represents rebellion. Steampunk novels tend to involve people breaking out of the strictures of society, and who needs to break out more than women?
What's Voidships? It's just a word we use to describe an entire steampunk fantasy series where, in 1843, Faraday demonstrated the partial nullification of gravity - and everything else is steampunk alternative history.
I hope you enjoy my stories.
About the Author
When he's not sitting at his computer building websites for national institutions and international companies, Steve Turnbull can be found sitting at his computer building new worlds of steampunk, science fiction and fantasy.
Technically Steve was born a cockney but after five years he was moved out from London to the suburbs where he grew up and he talks posh now. He's been a voracious reader of science fiction and fantasy since his early years, but it was poet Laurie Lee's autobiography Cider with Rosie (picked up because he was bored in Maths) that taught him the beauty of language and spurred him into becoming a writer, aged 15.
He spent twenty years editing and writing for computer magazines while writing poetry on the side. Nowadays he writes screenplays (TV and features), prose and computer programs.