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Space Planet: or when there's no more crime to solve
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 2 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
One murder. Two criminals on the run. And a whole lot of ghosts.
Space Planet is a wild ride that pulls you along by the bellybutton on a whimsical, hysterical journey through the sights, sounds, and smells of Scotland. When a hapless murderer and his criminal caretaker flee a nameless council estate for the breathtaking Highlands, they think they've found the perfect escape.
If only it wasn't for the wind.
In lukewarm pursuit are a pregnant police officer and her partner-who is still nursing the painful trauma of his recent indoctrination into the Jaffa club. To make matters worse, our two criminal dropouts pick up a few hitchhiking ghosts along the way, leading to a climactic showdown beneath a solar eclipse.
Stephen Toman knocks it out of the park with this brilliant play on the classic road trip genre. Perfect for fans of Chris Brookmyre, this is a book you shouldn't read in bed-unless you want to wake the whole house with your laughter.
--Alex Reynolds
--Foday Mannah, award-winning author of The Search for Othella Savage The new novel from Stephen Toman, the author of Mushroomhead and Badwater, Space Planet is a post-crime road novel, In Bruge meets The Detectorists, about masculinity, curiosity, austerity, and remembering that we live on a planet, in space.
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