The Great Pacific Gyre is a giant swirl of plastic waste in the western Pacific Ocean. In this fictional future, the Gyre is colonized by a species of alien Octopod who find the habitat ideal. Devilly Peen, writer of crime fiction and a third generation Octopod, investigates a series of brutal murders at the request of her friend Octabel Clamshucker. Readers might be surprised to find that Miss Peen, a mollusc, bears a resemblance to Miss Marple of detecting fame.
The Gyre
by E.K. Wicher
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