Far from the light of heaven

A spaceship, the Ragtime, goes from earth to the planet Bloodroot passing by the Spacestation Lagos. Arriving at Bloodroot, the captain Shell Campion wakes up and the ship AI is not responding and strange things happen on the ship. An inspector is sent from Bloodroot and the mystery grows deeper. Most of the story is set on the ship and slowly more characters come and each has a back story chapter. An augmented human carrying a malicious AI is responsible, as he was trying to take revenge for his exploited community of miners. In the end, the Spacestation had to protect themselves from Earth and cut there bridge and the captain feels very responsible for everything even if she did as best as she could. 

Tade writes a mystery in space that contains a lot. It's nice to read afrofuturism again, the Lambers aliens being old human spirits is a fun take, though not central, yet. It was maybe a bit too much stories at the same time for a quick resolution. It might have been because the book is preparing itself for sequels.