The Devil and Deep Space by Susan R. Matthews.
This caught my eye while I was browsing the SF section at the library. The blurb on the back cover reminded me of Kristine Smith, an author I enjoy, so I figured I'd give it a try.
It was totally unclear from the cover that this is not a standalone book or the first in the series. In fact, it's book four. I only got a few pages in before bogging down in the mass of details about the world and people without the barest hint of anything interesting happening. But there seems to be some sort of religious underpinning to a multi-world buearocracy, with Judges and an Inquisition, and one of the contenders for First Judge wants to do away with the Inquisition. And this is all very politically fraught, apparently.
But meanwhile, I'm bogged down underneath the unfamiliar names of people, places and institutions, and don't really care whether the Second Judge in question becomes First or not. So I'm giving it a pass.
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