Moon Bubbles: A Maurice Bordeau Murder Mystery

by Larry Vardiman

Pretty Bubbles in the SkyNASA is losing engineers. They're not retiring, but simply disappearing without a trace. Is a foreign country kidnapping some of the best minds working on a new initiative to colonize the Moon by 2024? How is it possible that three specialists who design habitats for the Moon could vanish and leave no trace? Were they killed? Were they abducted by aliens? Bordeau and Bristol are recruited by the Houston Police Department to find the missing engineers and determine if they were captured or murdered for some nefarius purpose. Meanwhile a consortium of engineers who hope to accompany the astronauts back to the Moon is constructing glass bubbles using 3D printers at a hidden location near Marfa, Texas to convince NASA that habitats can be more effectively built on the Moon.

125 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 30, 2019

About the author

Larry Vardiman is a paleoclimatologist retired in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He's published dozens of technical books, articles, and monographs. Now he's pursuing his passion of writing novels in the style of Agatha Christie, Tom Clancy, and Patrick O'Brien. Look for 'Green Bayous', 'Moon Bubbles', 'UCLA Body Stasher', 'White Death', 'The Chicago Boys', and 'Tunnels of Manhattan.'
He's traveled extensively and finds it easy to describe locations and cultures from personal experience. He loves to cook and eat allowing him to include descriptions of mouth-watering meals enjoyed by his detectives, Maurice Bordeau and Anthony Bristol. Last, but not least, he's an anglophile who loves to add humorous interplays between his French and British characters.