When a murder of galactic proportions is committed New York’s toughest cop, Detective Elijah Baley, reports for duty on the planet Solaria. Baley and his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, soon discover there’s a lot more to this mystery than anyone’s let on. After all, how does one go about killing someone who only appears in holographic projection? Whoever got close enough to the victim to kill him must have also acted outside the Laws of Robotics and human nature.

This is the second book in Asimov’s robot trilogy and follows The Caves of Steel. If you like this book, you may also enjoy his collection of short stories about robots, I, Robot.