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The author brings more than 25 years of experience as a costume designer for hit movies like Apollo 13, the Firm, and X Men: Days of Future Past. In this thrilling murder mystery, set in Los Angeles' glamorous Hollywood Hills and movie studios, the Malibu Coast, and the renowned San Fernando Valley, McCown gives us a VIP pass to observe the ins and outs of blockbuster film production, seasoned with adultery, fraud, duplicity, manipulation, and murder. A typical day on the set--and key costumer Joey Jessop dives into solving the homicide of a fellow crew member--risking her job and her life. An exciting story about movies that's a great cinematic read to enjoy!
Perfect for fans of Elle Cosimano and Nita Prose, when Hollywood costumer Joey Jessop stumbles across a dead body near the set of a big budget movie, she must find ways to protect her careerâand herselfâbefore it's too late.
Joey Jessop enjoys working behind the scenes. As key costumer for the next epic superhero movie, her role is to make others look good while staying out of the spotlight. That means making sure to be professional around Eli Logan, her ex and the First Assistant Director, and Courtney Lisle, Eli's newest love interest and the Second Assistant Director. But thisâŠ
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa storiesâall reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argueâŠ
I'm a Holmes and Watson super-fan, and loved Nicholas Meyer's ground-breaking pastiche, The Seven Percent Solution, in which Holmes met Sigmund Freud. Meyer has since penned a number of Holmes pastiches and now gives up a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes intelligence in Holmes' 60s during World War I. Holmes makes a dashing, elderly, proto-Bond, with his veteran Boswell Watson by his side, and travels to the US and Mexico to help Britain win the war against the German Kaiser's aggression. It's up to our two heroes to convince the US to come to Britain's aid. Will the British strategy succeed? A thrilling high-stakes adventure that lets readers share in lost history on the path to victory.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson cross the Atlantic at the height of World War I in pursuit of a mysterious coded telegram in this new mystery from the author of The Return of the Pharaoh.
June, 1916. With a world war raging on the continent, exhausted John H. Watson, M.D. is operating on the wounded full-time when his labors are interrupted by a knock on his door, revealing Sherlock Holmes, with a black eye, a missing tooth and a cracked rib. The story he has to tell will set in motion a series of world-changing events in the most consequentialâŠ
Iâm a mathematician and incurable book-lover. Itâs been one of the joys of my life to explore the links between mathematics and literature. The stories we tell ourselves about mathematics and mathematicians are fascinating, and especially the ways in which mathematicians are portrayed in fiction. Iâm the first female Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, a role created in 1597. I donât fit the mathematician stereotype of the dishevelled old man, obsessed only with numbers (well, perhaps I am slightly dishevelled), so I particularly relish books featuring mathematicians who bring more to the party than this. I hope youâll enjoy my recommended books as much as I did!
This play is a total delight. Read it, of course, and then if it ever comes to a theatre anywhere near you, go see it!
Itâs set in 1809 and the present-ish day, and features exuberant mathematical prodigy Thomasina Coverly, who definitely isnât meant to be Ada Lovelace, says Tom Stoppard (but maybe she is a bit).
The dialogue is like the most invigorating dinner party conversation you ever had: itâs funny, itâs clever, it references fractals, Fermatâs Last Theorem, the silly competitiveness of academia, Lord Byron, landscape gardening, and a million other things. I love it.Â
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'everything but vampires', as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later.
Bernard has arrived to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park.
Stealing technology from parallel Earths was supposed to make Declan rich. Instead, it might destroy everything.
Declan is a self-proclaimed interdimensional interloper, travelling to parallel Earths to retrieve futuristic cutting-edge technology for his employer. It's profitable work, and he doesn't ask questions. But when he befriends an amazing humanoid robot,âŠ
We are a mother and daughter team of mathematicians (respectively a researcher in mathematics and a math graduate who runs an educational company) and detective novel lovers (with Agatha Christie a firm favorite). Weâre also both very passionate about the importance of a good foundational mathematics education for everyone.
Thomasinaâs musings in Arcadia lead us naturally to Nova Jacobsâ entertaining mystery: the titular equation is closely linked to Thomasinaâs âtheory of everythingâ (in fact, a quote from Arcadia opens one of Jacobsâ chapters). When Isaac suddenly dies of an apparent suicide, his adoptive granddaughter Hazel is left to follow his enigmatic clues to discover where Isaac has hidden the equation he spent the last years of his life working on, what exactly it calculates, and who else is after it.Â
The best thing about this book is the Severy family, a bunch of mathematicians and theoretical physicists living in a hilariously drawn world of academic pettiness, demanding PhD students, dry periods that seem like they might never end, judgmental relatives, and disappointingly un-academic offspring. Sounds just like our family!
*Wall Street Journalâs âMysteries: Best of 2018â *Book of the Month Club Selection *Edgar Award Nominee: Best First Novel by an American Author
A âhugely entertainingâ (Wall Street Journal) mystery starring âa Royal Tenenbaums-esque clan of geniusesâ (Martha Stewart Living)âperfect for fans of Mr. Penumbraâs 24-Hour Bookstore.
In this ârivetingâŠbrilliantâ (Booklist) debut, Hazel Severy, the owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives a letter from her adoptive grandfatherâmathematician Isaac Severyâdays after he dies in a suspected suicide. In his puzzling letter, Isaac alludes to a secretive organization that is after his final bombshell equation, and he charges Hazel with safelyâŠ
We are a mother and daughter team of mathematicians (respectively a researcher in mathematics and a math graduate who runs an educational company) and detective novel lovers (with Agatha Christie a firm favorite). Weâre also both very passionate about the importance of a good foundational mathematics education for everyone.
This book loves to pretend to be a Raymond Chandler type thriller with a hard-boiled detective, but what might be a stereotype is offset by the detective's past and his personal struggle with depression, as well as a romantic interest in his client, an attractive female mathematician who hires him to figure out why three different mathematicians she contacted about the exact same topic have all died recently. Â
Pieces are gathered and put together bit by bit to form a well-balanced mystery complete with false leads and a twist at the end. What makes this novel quite unique is the place given to the actual mathematics of fractals, with enough explanation to communicate not only their fascinating nature but also several applications, much of which is even relevant to the mystery. Best of all is the accurate depiction of the passion of the mathematicians for their subject, their lifestyle, andâŠ
When Jane Smyers, a math professor specializing in fractal geometry, decides to send an article for proofreading to other specialists around the country, she is shocked to learn that three of them have died under mysterious circumstances. That's where Pepper Keane comes in. An ex-Marine with an encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll, he finds himself attracted to Professor Smyers and is determined to find out what he can. At first he can't find any evidence that the three dead specialists even knew each other. But Keane continues to dig, and with the help of his computer hacker best friendâŠ
We are a mother and daughter team of mathematicians (respectively a researcher in mathematics and a math graduate who runs an educational company) and detective novel lovers (with Agatha Christie a firm favorite). Weâre also both very passionate about the importance of a good foundational mathematics education for everyone.
This energetic mystery is populated by a range of extremely colourful characters from reclusive twin brother mathematicians to disreputable biographers and Belarusian Mafiosi, and it has a suitably hapless narrator to guide us through the mess of murder, stolen mathematical documents and unsavoury rumours.Â
The final revelation is pretty crude and disappointing but it doesn't matter too much because the book up til there is very great (and very British) fun. There's plenty of mathematical trivia and some discussion of actual maths, including an interesting scene where we get to contrast how two brains - one mathematical and one not - approach a problem.
After a disastrous day at work, disillusioned junior PR executive Tom Winscombe finds himself sharing a train carriage and a dodgy Merlot with George Burgess, biographer of the Vavasor twins, mathematicians Archimedes and Pythagoras, who both died in curious circumstances a decade ago.
Burgess himself will die tonight in an equally odd manner, leaving Tom with a locked case and a lot of unanswered questions.
Join Tom and a cast of disreputable and downright dangerous characters in this witty thriller set in a murky world of murder, mystery and complex equations,âŠ
Nature writer Sharman Apt Russell tells stories of her experiences tracking wildlifeâmostly mammals, from mountain lions to pocket miceânear her home in New Mexico, with lessons that hold true across North America. She guides readers through the basics of identifying tracks and signs, revealing a landscape filled with the marksâŠ
We are a mother and daughter team of mathematicians (respectively a researcher in mathematics and a math graduate who runs an educational company) and detective novel lovers (with Agatha Christie a firm favorite). Weâre also both very passionate about the importance of a good foundational mathematics education for everyone.
The Three Body Problem is a real-life unsolved math problem concerning the motion of three bodies (think a star and two orbiting planets), all acting on each other by the pull of gravity. Given their positions and movements at times, what will happen in the future? Will they eventually fly away or fall into the star? Â
Cambridge, 1888, Miss Vanessa Duncan is recently arrived from the countryside to teach. But everything changes when Mr Akers, a Fellow f Mathematics, is found dead. When a second and then third mathematician are murdered, it becomes a race against time to solve the case.
