A review by transitionaljoint
The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel

Noir mystery filtered through sci fi with a sports backdrop. Checked too many of my boxes to not check out. Between character development, the mystery plot, and sci fi world building, things can feel a little crowded. Michel is game, but juggling genres as a first time novelist is really hard. The parts I liked best were the ones that speculated where the corporate spectacle and pageantry of sports could look like in the future, with delicious hyperbole. 

For the first half, the book focuses on the relationship of a star player who was killed on the baseball diamond, and his brother, a scout turned gumshoe trying to put the pieces of the case together. Meaning that the most important character dynamic is defined by absence, for better or worse.