The Big Sheep

The Big Sheep by Robert Kroese is a mystery story with a SF setting.  The setting is 2030’s Los Angeles.  A Los Angeles that has recovered from a massive period of economic unrest by creating “no-go zones” that are free from the burdens & protections of government.  Our narrator works for an eccentric private investigator or as he would prefer to be called a phenomenological inquisitor.  As the story opens they’ve been hired to find a stolen sheep.  This is, of course, no ordinary sheep.  Soon they have taken on a case investigating threats against a well-known young media star.  Surprisingly the cases seem to intersect.

The book has interesting characters and a reasonable amount of action.  It is, however, one of those books where the reader figures out what is going on quicker than the characters of the story.  As a reader you’re left to kind of shout at the characters about what they should be doing….

I would recommend this book to lovers of SF who don’t mind a Chandleresque mystery.