A Slow Cold Death

Publisher: Bitingduck Press

She died the way the universe will
Lori Barrow was a Wunderkind, the youngest student ever to enroll at America's most exclusive science university. Now, twenty years later, she's a lonely, socially awkward Luddite whose career is all over the map because she refuses to grow up.. Her alma mater has brought her back as a professor not because of any great achievements, but because they hope her wide range of skills will resuscitate the dying physics department.

She learns very quickly that the "dying" is all too literal. Mysterious deaths and accidents have plagued the department for at least two years, linked somehow to experiments at the South Pole and the happenings at the rocket lab. Afraid of making waves too quickly, Lori keeps her suspicions to herself? until the department's only female graduate student is found frozen to death in the cold room.

An angry technician with a misogynist streak is arrested, and everyone but Lori breathes a sigh of relief. She is convinced that the murder was not personal but political, a warning to her and her colleagues to stay away from the rocket lab. At stake is a six hundred million dollar grant that has the power to return the department to its former glory.

About Susy Gage

Susy Gage is the pen name of a physics professor who hopes to remain anonymous until tenure, retirement, or death, whichever comes first. In her scholarly life, she has published over one hundred papers on condensed matter and particle physics and traveled from pole to pole. She is also active in educational efforts aimed at teaching biology to mathematicians and the other way around. Hobbies include ultra-marathons on human powered vehicles of all descriptions, cats, and growing tropical plants. She is the author of A Slow Cold Death.

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Binding EAN ISBN-10 Pub Date PAGES Language Size Price
Paperback 9781938463372 1938463374 2012-11-23 258 0.00 x 5.80 x 8.30 in $16.99

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