The Hydrogen Murder

 

A Periodic Table Mystery, Book One

 

By Camille Minichino

 

On her 55th birthday, physicist Gloria Lamerino makes a U-turn: she cleans out her Berkeley, California condo and her physics lab, signs for a retirement bonus, and flies east to her hometown of Revere, just outside Boston. Back in the city she left thirty years ago, Gloria moves into an apartment above her friends’ funeral home and drives their hand-me-down Cadillacs.

 

When she signs on with the local police as a consultant in science-related crimes, she thinks the most exciting thing about the job will be testifying as an expert witness. But Gloria finds a challenge she doesn’t expect: the murder of Eric Bensen, a physicist she knew in California. Gloria uncovers fraudulent scientific data, solves Eric’s murder, and engages in her first physical combat, all in the same week. She also has her first date in decades.