The Big Sheep

The Big Sheep by Robert Kroese, 308 pages

Quick question: what do a giant genetically modified sheep and a paranoid Hollywood starlet have in common? Well, other than the fact that private investigator phenomenological inquisitor Erasmus Keane is tasked with finding one and protecting the other, not much. Or so the erratic detective thinks. Set in a futuristic Los Angeles, The Big Sheep is a funny bit of sci-fi noir, zooming the aircar of our narrator (Blake Fowler, the Watson to Keane's Holmes) from the gang-filled neighborhoods of the DZ to immaculate biotech firms to media empires to ritzy hotels, chasing down the answers to these surprisingly intertwined mysteries. The characters don't have much depth, but with a complex plot running at breakneck speed, that's not really a problem. It's a weird book, but a good one. Fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and Richard Kadrey's The Everything Box will likely enjoy this one.