Review: The Launch Party by Lauren A Forry

Synopsis: THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME. YOU'D DIE TO BE THERE.

Ten lucky people have won a place at the most exclusive launch event of the the grand opening of the Hotel Artemis, the first hotel on the moon. It's an invitation to die for. As their transport departs for its return to Earth and the doors seal shut behind them, the guests take the next leap for mankind.

However, they soon discover that all is not as it seems. The champagne may be flowing, but there is no one to pour it. Room service is available, but there is no one to deliver it. Besides the ten of them, they are completely alone.

When one of the guests is found murdered, fear spreads through the group. But that death is only the beginning. Being three days' journey from home and with no way to contact the outside, can any of the guests survive their stay?

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"... we are all just strangers floating in a metal tube ..."

Ten people win a trip to a luxury hotel on the moon - alone on the journey, one is found dead. The guests are on their own - the staff and ship have mysteriously left. The guests assume they are in a reality TV show.

This is a cosy sci-fi mystery all about revenge for past actions and more than one guest is linked to the events.

That's pretty much it. I breezed through this as there was very little to tax the brain, despite the premise of a locked-room mystery, which could have been set in an abandoned and isolated hotel ... anywhere. Further exploration of the setting would have been useful as would character development. Read it for what it is ... light fluff entertainment. Agatha Christie or Lucy Foley this is not.