Glimpse by Michael Garcia

MURDER AT THE HOTEL SOLARIA

“Every clue that is dropped along the way by this master storyteller is taking you closer to figuring it out. GLIMPSE cliffhangers like a matinee show and delivers like the great detective stories of yesteryear! —“The only other great sci-fi book of its class is Robert Silverberg’s Across A Billion Years!”
— Sci-Fi-X

While on vacation, coolly-calculating Inspector Potto Gumpuff of the two independently-thinking brains with the stoic-sense-of-humour collides into a situation where a murder has been committed and he must solve the case—and super quickly—before all the clues either ‘vanish’ or are swept up and taken away forever.
Set in a retro-tech world, where aliens and humanoids are forced to co-exist and accept each others customs and absurdities. In a place where Google has been replaced by OMNI, a chugging search engine that delivers cleverer-than-thou answers. And placed amid all the sheer exuberance of detail and cosmic craziness, it is pure genius. Think of GLIMPSE as a cross between Bladerunner and Agatha Christie.