The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher is a science fiction mystery/thriller set in a faraway space station that is being dismantled. Captain Abraham Idaho (Ida) Cleveland joins the skeleton crew on the verge of his retirement, but is curious as to why he was sent there since his presence isn’t really needed. He’s leaving service a hero, having saved a planet from the giant, aggressive Spiders, but no one on the station believes him, and when he searches, he can find no record of his accomplishments. Mystery compounds mystery as people start to have visions and disappear from the station. The only person who will help him in solving the mystery is a medic by the name of Izanami, who, it turns out, has secrets of her own.
The Burning Dark keeps the reader guessing as to what is the real problem on the Coast City space station. Is it the noncoms who harass Ida, the acting commandant King, the mysterious purple sun they came there to study, or is something else going on? This book kept me on the edge of my seat. I recommend it highly for fans of mystery and science fiction.