A Quantum Murder

Greg Mandel, a psychically enhanced ex-soldier working as a private investigator in a near-future England still recovering from economic collapse and a period of hardline socialist rule, is called in when a brilliant but unpopular physicist is found murdered at a Cambridge research institute, apparently by one of a small circle of colleagues who all had reason to want him dead. Mandel's intuitive gift for sensing lies and hidden emotion should make the case straightforward -- except the suspects include people bound together by a shared mental-communion technology that scrambles the usual rules of guilt and motive. The second novel in Peter F. Hamilton's Greg Mandel trilogy, following Mindstar Rising.