Hoshe Finn
Names: Hoshe FinnDetective FinnHosheDetectiveOfficer
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 6 (FIVE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 6Hoshe Finn is a cheerful, overweight local detective from Oaktier's ice-crime division, assigned to assist Paula; he has handled three ice cases.
- Ch 10Hoshe accompanies Paula and works on the insurance side of the re-life investigation.
- Ch 11Detective assisting Paula Myo, who maneuvered to stay on the case and hopes she will endorse his application to the Serious Crimes Directorate.
- Ch 11Is uneasy about handing Shaheef's memory to an alien without official oversight, but Paula tells him to have confidence in his own judgment.
- Ch 12Hoshe spent a week reviewing files on Oaktier's crime syndicates and found no major crime forty years ago that could explain the disappearance of Shaheef and Cotal.
- Ch 12Hoshe is a Darklake detective, resident for sixty years, who searches forty-year-old City Hall construction records for burial sites.
- Ch 14Hoshe spent months scanning construction sites from forty years ago with a tiny, demoralized forensics team, and finally found two buried bodies beneath a Darklake condo.
- Ch 14Hoshe Finn is the detective on the case. Madoc's cross-examination gets him to admit no evidence rules out a criminal-gang killing, damaging the prosecution.
- Ch 14Hoshe Finn sits at the prosecution table and is delighted at the guilty verdict.
- Ch 16Hoshe Finn has recently been promoted to police captain, a promotion that followed Morton's trial and Paula Myo's departure.
- Ch 16Hoshe is kind to Mellanie: he calms her down, pays for her B&B for a week and has her cybersphere account reactivated.
- Ch 16Hoshe privately believes Morton killed two people; the pathologist's report showed no signs of torture, the victim was in a bath and her memorycell was ruined.
- Ch 16Hoshe is married and embarrassedly refuses Mellanie's offer of sex, saying he is helping her so Morton won't claim a third victim.
- Ch 20Former colleague of Paula, now living in Darklake City with wife Inima; agrees to investigate the Shansorel Partnership as a favor.
- Ch 22Investigator who tracked the Shansorel Partnership via Giscard Lex to reach Kareem, posing as a tax-evading businessman seeking software fixes; he has lived more than one life.
- Ch 22Hoshe helps Paula tail Stig and fears the President is killing citizens or that Bradley Johansson was right.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 3Hoshe was on Sligo during the Prime attack, led an evacuation squad, and was burned; he has nightly dreams of the destruction.
- Ch 3Hoshe is reluctant about the Commonwealth administration, but takes interest in the job's medical benefits since insurance refuses to cover his wife's war injuries.
- Ch 4Hoshe joins Senate Security; he has lost weight and looks better than on Oaktier, and his wife Inima is recovering in a clinic.
- Ch 6Hoshe discovered anomalies in Directorate files showing the Cox's financial data was excluded from the report, and told Paula.
- Ch 6Hoshe established that Bose's original astronomical observation was financed by the Starflyer.
- Ch 10Hoshe is reviewing and sequestering the clinic's data arrays for Paula's team.
- Ch 10Hoshe takes control of the clinic's net with aggressive infiltrators and sets up the command post in Greenford Tower.
- Ch 11Hoshe is Paula's colleague who operates the cage equipment and helps subdue Isabella.
- Ch 11Hoshe escorts Isabella's suspension shell to the High Angel, bypassing navy troopers thanks to the High Angel's intervention.
- Ch 11Hoshe delivers Isabella to Qatux and insists the examination is a service benefiting Qatux, requiring complete reliability.
- Ch 13Hoshe works at the London office and is in contact with Captain Kumancho, who is tailing Victor Halgarth.
- Ch 13Hoshe loves Inima and wants to go home to her during the attack, but a call from Kumancho keeps him at the office.
- Ch 14Hoshe asks to rescue a Senate Security team stuck on Boongate; he agrees to try to get Mellanie assigned to cover Baron's arrest.
- Ch 16Hoshe Finn runs the arrest operation against Alessandra Baron and refuses to let Mellanie join the arrest squad for safety reasons.
- Ch 20Hoshe Finn is welcomed by Paula as a new member of the Paris office.
Connections
- ally ofPaula Myoassigned to assist her on the case
- led byPaula Myo
- ally ofIvor Chesselfellow prosecutors
- friend ofMellanie Rescoraihelps her out of sympathy
- family ofInimamarried
- friend ofPaula Myo
- enemy ofKareemdeceiving him to investigate
- member ofSenate Security service
- partner ofInima
- ally ofMellanie Rescorai
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 6Paula interviews Wyobie Cotal
At the Clayden Clinic, Paula and Finn question the re-lifed Cotal, who recalls nothing of leaving Oaktier or Tampico and begs them to find his killers; he is sedated.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Paula interviews Tara and Matthew
At the plantation, Paula questions Tara about her affair with Wyobie, the Tampico trip, and weapons. She concludes the Tampico story was a setup and Tara was likely killed over something she encountered.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Paula and Hoshe interview Morton
Paula questions Morton about Tara's departure, divorce, finances and enemies, and requests the divorce file and a check on Tara's Tampico shares.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Paula and Hoshe review the financial trail
Aboard the lift to the Raiel dome, they conclude Shaheef and Cotal's accounts show no sign they were alive after disappearing, supporting murder and a faked alibi.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Shaheef's memory given to Qatux
Paula brings Shaheef's memory crystal to Qatux in the Raiel city so he can search it for a motive or enemy; he promises results within a week.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Paula deduces Morton's motive
After Qatux finds no enemies for Tara and Hoshe finds no crime link, Paula concludes Morton killed his partner to profit for both of them, and orders Hoshe to find the bodies.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Paula's case progresses
Paula and Hoshe plan a search of Darklake for the bodies; Mel Rees arrives unexpectedly with an apparent new assignment.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Bodies found beneath condo
Hoshe's scans find two box-contained bodies ten meters below a thirty-story Darklake condo. Paula arrives, promises extraction teams and says she can now get an arrest warrant.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Morton arrested
Paula and Hoshe arrive at Morton's penthouse and arrest him for the bodykill and memory erasure of his ex-wife Tara Jennifer Shaheef and Wyobie Cotal. Morton insists it's a mistake.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Defense undermines the prosecution
Madoc's cross-examinations of Hoffbrand, Tara and Hoshe Finn create doubt, getting Finn to admit no evidence rules out a gang killing, and public opinion swings toward Morton.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Morton sentenced
The judge sentences Morton to 120 years of life suspension. Shaheef shouts at him, Mellanie is restrained, and Morton is led away while the prosecutors celebrate and Paula Myo leaves unmoved.
- Book 1 · Ch 16Hoshe defuses the penthouse standoff
Hoshe talks Mellanie out of the kitchen after she damaged a GPbot during repossession, helps her pack, arranges a B&B, and gets her cybersphere account reactivated.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Paula asks Hoshe Finn for help
Paula visits Hoshe unofficially and asks him to investigate the Shansorel Partnership's software link to Rigin's modulator.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Hoshe meets Kareem
Using Giscard Lex's introduction, Hoshe finds Kareem in his garage and, posing as a tax-dodging importer, pays a deposit for a software fix and hands over a memory crystal.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Stig tailed through Seattle station
Stig McSobel checks for followers on the way to a loop train while Hoshe Finn and Paula's team B shadow him.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Paula offers Hoshe a job
Paula visits the recovering Hoshe, comforts him, and offers him a job as her assistant at Senate Security, citing her distrust of her old team. He asks about the medical benefits.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Paula briefs Hoshe
On Hoshe's first day, Paula assigns him to re-investigate the Cox charity and discusses Mellanie and the Rowden escape from LA Galactic.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Hoshe uncovers Cox charity fraud
Hoshe shows Paula that the Cox's records were faked and Directorate data suppressed; they conclude the Starflyer funded Bose's discovery and the war was deliberate.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Paula Myo recruits Renne's help
Paula tells Renne that Alessandra Baron is a Starflyer agent and asks her to research Isabella's background, while secretly having Renne monitored to see whom she contacts.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Paula's team detects Tarlo's warning
Hoshe reports that Tarlo sent an encrypted warning to Bernadette after Renne's call; Paula decides to monitor both and arrest Tarlo later.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Paula's team infiltrates Saffron Clinic
Paula's armored team takes the clinic's net down, catches Mellanie, learns the lawyers' locations, and assigns teams to each.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Raid on the Saffron Clinic
Paula's teams storm the clinic; wetwired hostiles fight back with explosions. Bernadette and others are killed, but an unidentified man's body is found and an elevator shaft breach suggests someone escaped.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Renne killed by Isabella Halgarth
Renne spots Isabella Halgarth and follows her taxi; Isabella detects her and destroys the taxi with a maser, killing Renne, whose memorycell survives.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Paula and Mellanie leave Illuminatus
After the Greenford Tower aftermath, Paula and Hoshe take Mellanie by police van to the CST station and board an express toward Earth.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Isabella ambushed on the express
Isabella Halgarth, a Starflyer agent, attacks the compartment; Paula's team traps her in a cage, disables her with a dump-web and nervejam stick, and captures her alive. Paula reveals it was an entrapment.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Hoshe delivers Isabella to the High Angel
Hoshe is stopped by navy troopers but cleared after the High Angel intervenes, then travels to the Raiel dome with Isabella's suspension shell.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Isabella delivered to Qatux
Hoshe Finn brings Isabella Halgarth's suspension shell to Qatux, who will examine her memories to discover how the Starflyer controlled her.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Qatux arrives with Tiger Pansy
Qatux and Hoshe come through the wormhole into the High Angel; Qatux links with Tiger Pansy, then goes to the analysis center to help find Starflyer agents.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Dudley dumps Mellanie
Dudley Bose coolly ends his relationship with Mellanie, with the Bose motile agreeing it is because he is an asshole; she leaves and later bargains with Hoshe.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Mellanie diverted to Cressat
As Hoshe's arrest team moves on Alessandra Baron, the SI tells Mellanie to impersonate call girl Vanora Kingsley and reach Ozzie Isaac on Cressat; she leaves the operation.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Paula takes over the Paris office
Paula returns as Deputy Director, welcomes the team, keeps Alic, and plans a meeting about Oscar Monroe's fate.