the if you like your science fiction old skool golden age adventure with an awesomely inventive  adversary you can't go wrong with 'leviathan wakes' by james corey the first in a trilogy called the expanse.

it's characters focus upon the detective miller who is investigating the disappearance of a young heiress to an industrialist millionaire, and the captain of the ice hauler 'the canterbury' who investigates a derelict space ship responding to a signal. 

it's a pretty action packed chunky novel but the last third is when it gets interesting as the enemy is revealed against a backdrop of politics and mad scientists.

this is american science fiction, and i can see it's heritage, very different from the contemporary english science fiction, but it's good and worth reading if you need an easy escape route.