Finder

Finder by Suzanne Palmer, 391 pages

Fergus Ferguson is a finder, someone who will track down those things or people that are lost and retrieve them by any means necessary, including illegal methods. When we meet Fergus at the beginning of this book, he has been tasked with finding and returning a stolen spaceship from a barely habitated corner of the universe to the shipbuilders of Pluto. But as he's honing in on the object of his search, an explosion throws Fergus into the middle of a tense political situation. Despite all his best intentions to stick to his mission, he keeps getting pulled back into the fray.

This is an excellent heist novel, complete with inventive ideas, challenging puzzles, narrow escapes, and a resourceful thief. It's also a great science fiction novel, with fully considered space stations, faster-than-light travel, and a well-thought-out history that explains why humans are so far away from Earth. I loved this book, and I would happily read more Finder stories from Palmer.