the Ambassador Missed BBQ

A murdered diplomat. A locked room. A stolen corpse. A fraudulent treaty worth trillions. And the best BBQ in the Quadrant. Commander Art Bellamy expected a routine diplomatic assignment aboard the USS White House. Instead, he finds himself investigating a murder complicated by diplomatic immunity, manipulated security records, competing governments, corporate corruption, and a mysterious eleven-minute gap. Someone aboard the ship killed Sir Reginald Percival-Smythe and staged the crime to look like an international assassination. Then the body disappears. As Bellamy digs deeper, he discovers that the murder is only one piece of a much larger conspiracy surrounding a treaty that could transfer control of strategic infrastructure worth trillions of credits. Everyone aboard the White House has something to hide. The question is which secret matters. Bellamy isn't a genius who solves crimes through miraculous flashes of inspiration. He's a professional investigator who notices the details everyone else overlooks. And one tiny detail may bring down an enormous conspiracy: BBQ ash on a pair of diplomatic shoes.