The Human Variable · A Shawn Ronin Mystery (Shawn Ronin Mysteries Book 1)

Disgraced physicist Shawn Ronin is compelled to solve problems. But it turns out that human problems are far more complicated than anything found in a lab.

Shawn can’t move on after his ivory tower life came crashing down around him. When presented with the opportunity to help another professor avoid the same fate, he can’t refuse. However, not everything is as it seems. Finding himself smack in the middle of a university scandal, he uncovers more than just misconduct as he embraces the ego-driven drama of researchers in a world he once knew so well. None of his once Nobel worthy papers can help him now. He'll soon find out if he has what it takes to be a private investigator.

Shawn Ronin serves up cynicism with a side of empathy. The Human Variable brings to life the complicated web of academic problems and self-serving lies, all being unraveled by a man so used to solving the world’s problems that he doesn’t know how to ask for help with his own.