Deborah Rabinowitz lives in a future when we've contacted other life forms,
but interstellar distances make it impossible to visit them physically.
Instead, people travel through virtual space to get from planet to planet.
The only commodities that can be traded are intellectual properties, so
she's a literary broker. She sells the publishing rights for Earth books
to other worlds. And, along the way, she just so happens to come across
murders she has to solve.
This book contains two novelettes, The Height of Intrigue and
The Sword Unswayed, both of which originally appeared in Analog
magazine in the 1990s. There may be more Rabinowitz stories one of these
days--Deborah's a fascinating character. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy
Alien Murders.