Six million years have passed since Abigail Gentian split herself into 1,000 clones and launched them across the galaxy.

Every few hundred thousand years her 'shatterlings' reconvene to exchange memories and experience. But this time something is very wrong. Two of them arrive late to find the reunion has been ambushed; someone wants them all dead.

So begins Reynolds' latest epic, a suspenseful sci-fi whodunit of vast scope, which keeps you gripped throughout. The characters are a little two-dimensional, but the premise is original and clever, especially the millennia the plot zips through in the blink of an eye.