Apple Crumble & Airlocks
(2026)(The first book in the Galactic Bites Cafe Cozy Mysteries series)
A novel by Zeph Baxter
When the captain of the cruise spaceship Fresh Start goes missing after collapsing while dining at the Galactic Bites Café, chaos breaks loose in the ship’s gleaming halls.
Marcy Mayhem never wanted to step foot in that café again. The forty-two-year-old passenger—with allergies so severe she can’t even take anti-allergy meds in an age that cured them a century ago—had only slipped in for her ritual bowl of cornflakes. But when she’s caught using a stolen meal ticket by the café’s infuriatingly tidy owner, Chef David Brenner, her fresh start in space begins to crumble.
Now the captain is dead, David’s dish is to blame, and Marcy’s the only witness who noticed what others ignored. He lives by precision, she thrives on disorder, and neither trusts the other. Yet as the ship drifts through the inner solar routes, their uneasy alliance becomes the only hope of unraveling a murder cooked up in plain sight.
Because sometimes, solving the impossible takes more than logic or luck—
it takes mixing a little chaos with a whole lot of order.
This is the first book in the new series, but they can all be read independently.
Genre: Science Fiction
Marcy Mayhem never wanted to step foot in that café again. The forty-two-year-old passenger—with allergies so severe she can’t even take anti-allergy meds in an age that cured them a century ago—had only slipped in for her ritual bowl of cornflakes. But when she’s caught using a stolen meal ticket by the café’s infuriatingly tidy owner, Chef David Brenner, her fresh start in space begins to crumble.
Now the captain is dead, David’s dish is to blame, and Marcy’s the only witness who noticed what others ignored. He lives by precision, she thrives on disorder, and neither trusts the other. Yet as the ship drifts through the inner solar routes, their uneasy alliance becomes the only hope of unraveling a murder cooked up in plain sight.
Because sometimes, solving the impossible takes more than logic or luck—
it takes mixing a little chaos with a whole lot of order.
This is the first book in the new series, but they can all be read independently.
Genre: Science Fiction