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“Many and wondrous are the charms of this witty, suspenseful, and enchanting book.” —The Wall Street Journal

The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe in this…

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A gripping mystery set in the tech superworld of the CERN Large Hadron collider, the scientific facility in Geneva that is the center of studies of subatomic particles, their impacts, and their impact. The death of a young scientist is investigated by PI Sabine Leroux, who bores into this competitive academic universe and its humanity--and inhumanity--and destroys its foundations and core. Nova Jacobs has penned a compelling whodunit with a philosophical center.

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