Leviathan Wakes

Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, 582 pages.
Jim Holden is serving as the Executive Officer on the ice-hauler Canterbury making their regular run between Saturn and the Belt when they receive a distress call from a stranded ship. When Holden, Naomi Nagata, and three other crew members take a small skiff out to see if they can effect a rescue or at least some salvage, they stumble upon a secret that is going to change the lives of everyone on Earth, on Mars, and on all the colonies in the Belt.
That same secret drives Detective Miller, on Ceres Station, to go looking for the missing daughter of one of the richest men in the solar system. The two authors who write as Corey do an excellent job of creating interesting, likable characters and placing them in extraordinary circumstances. Great fun to read.