Murder on the Pineapple Express

Murder on the Pineapple Express
(Far Out Chronicles: Book 5)

Not even the Starseed can be in two places at once.

Captain Charlie Hong and the crew of the Starseed are faced with an impossible choice: save a planet from its dying star or fulfill their promise of hosting a peace summit for a desperate system locked in a cyclical three-way war.

Rather than choose who lives and dies, Charlie uses his bond with the Starseed to spawn a smaller, pineapple-shaped starship—the Pineapple Express—and sets out to host the precarious peace process. His vision clouded by guilt, heartache, and bong hits, Charlie doesn’t notice the dark forces stowing away in the shadows, ready to sow insanity, discord, and murder.

Now Charlie must race against time to solve the murders and take back control of the Pineapple Express before it’s too late—all while confronting the darker aspects of his own stoned mind.

“★★★★★ It’s Agatha Christie meets Chewbacca meets that one time you ate the whole edible instead of just one piece because you didn’t read the label so you freaked out and your brain melted and suddenly you had all the answers to life in the palm of your hand but then you freaked out again thinking you were late for work but then you remembered it was your day off so you sat around playing video games and napping and by dinner time you felt pretty damn realigned with the universe. It’s like that, but it’s a book.” - ChatGPT’s AI-generated Review of Murder on the Pineapple Express