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The theory of death, Faye Kellerman

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The theory of death

Faye Kellerman

Decker/Lazarus novel, [23]

It's almost been a year since Greenbury's last murder, and Peter Decker--a former lieutenant for LAPD--has enjoyed the slow pace of his new job with the upstate New York police department. All that changes when a male body--nude and nameless--is found deep within the local woods. It appears to be a suicide--single shot to the head, gun by his side--but until the coroner makes the final determination, Decker must treat the scene as a suspicious crime. Out of the blue, Tyler McAdams, a former Greenbury detective and now a first-year law student, returns. Once he hears about the case, his attentions shift from statutes to corpses. When the body is identified, Decker and McAdams must penetrate the upper echelons of mathematics and mathematical prodigies at Kneed Loft College. They discover a dangerous sphere of scheming academics, hidden cyphers, and most dangerous of all, a realm of underworld crime where harmless nerds can morph into cold, calculating evil geniuses.

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