Second paragraph of third chapter:

He nodded, pointing at the headsets they were still wearing. ‘Must’ve switched themselves on as we fell.’

A novel presented as being by Bonnie ‘Mel Bush’ Langford, though one suspects that Jacqueline Rayner had quite a strong hand in it. It’s a space opera story set soon after Dragonfire, with several plots going on at once: there’s a suicidal generation starship cult, there’s another starship with a crew coming out of suspended animation, and then there is a murder that Mel has to solve. Oh, and Sabalom Glitz being his usual self as well. To be honest I thought the plots were not especially well integrated with each other, but the character riffing between Mel and Glitz is nicely done, and the book succeeds in its main aim, to make it clear that Mel has an afterlife, or indeed a life, after her TARDIS travels end.

You can get Death in the Stars here.