Rose/House — Arkady Martine

Rose/House is a breathtaking and taut sci-fi gothic thriller from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire.

“I'm a piece of architecture, Detective. How should I know how humans are like to die?”

All of Basit Deniau's houses are haunted.

Detective Maritza Smith grew up in China Lake and knows the late architect's most iconic creation, Rose House, is no exception. And a house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing; but a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused in every load-bearing beam and fine marble tile? That is something else altogether. That is Rose House.

Deniau's been dead a year, and the house is locked up tight, as commanded by his will. But one evening Detective Smith receives an alarming call from Rose House: there is a dead body inside.

It is not Basit Deniau, and it is not Dr. Selene Gisil, a former protégé and the sole person permitted to come into Rose House once a year. It is someone else. But Rose House refuses to communicate any further and hangs up.

No one can get inside Rose House except Dr. Gisil, who was abroad when the death was reported. Detective Smith must summon her back to the Mojave Desert and gain access to the house -- and to the dead body -- before it's too late.

For someone may be there still.

Also by Arkady Martine:
A Memory Called Empire
A Desolation Called Peace

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