Technically Murder Beneath the Buried Sky by Keith Hartman is a novella, but when it came out, it was the first writing from the author in quite a while.
We follow Calvin around, in the cave system his parents and several others followed into the cave to escape "The Burn", a nuclear holocaust. While indications remain that it started off as a cult of religious types, it comes clear that isolation had kind of ended the more religious mania of the area, as free love regardless of gender seems to be the norm among most of the folks in the caves.
The problem is, as we find out, Calvin's dad is found dead at the opening, and Calvin is the prime suspect.
What follows is a rather engaging mystery, as to who killed Dad and, more importantly why someone would kill the Quartermaster.
To go into too much detail on everything would spoil the plot, although I think I can get by with saying the author himself expresses its inspiration came from Plato.
Lots of fun, although darker than much of what else Hartman has published.
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