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'One of the Takeshi Kovacs books?
Those aren't it, I've never read any of the Kovacs books.
Check the list of examples on the Whodunnit to Me? page, if you haven't already.
Sounds like Altered Carbon by Morgan.
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Thank you, Paul A, I knew there had to be a trope for it, but I couldn't find it. The book appears to be much older than I thought; Voice of the Whirlwind by Walter Jon Williams looks like the right one.
I read it about 10 years ago and I think it was pretty new then. There's space travel but no star travel (IIRC), and people can back themselves up and have their minds read into a clone body in the event of their death. The protagonist is such a person, who wakes up in a cloning facility, having been restored from a five year old backup. In the interim, he made some enemies, one of whom murdered him. So the protagonist has to solve his murder.