Bargain @ $2.99 (and DRM-free), possibly for today only (March 27th) from Tor Books as the Kobo Daily Deal for Canada (also appears to be matched in the US and at Amazon & B&N, but not Google Play CA):
Company Town by Canadian author Madeline Ashby (
ISFDB,
SFE), a standalone sfnal mystery set off the coast of Canada with cyborg bio-engineering and parallel timeline elements which was published just last year. According to one of the review complaints, this was a CBC Canada Reads selection, which they didn't feel lived up to that.
Linkage for
eBooks.com (giftable),
Amazon main,
Kobo US,
B&N, and
Google Play where it may also be discounted in the US.
They call it Company Town--a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd.
Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bio-engineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig--making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline?
Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be--but now, the danger is personal.
A brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved, or saving herself.