Synopses & Reviews
Jake Hines and his team are plunged into the controversial world of cutting edge science when a biochemist is found dead at his desk.Rutherford's Property Crimes division is on a hot streak. Having recently attracted a string of New Science businesses, the town has had fourteen office break-ins in just five days, though nothing seems to have been taken. A series of threatening notes are left by an environmental group, and curiosity soon turns to alarm when a lead scientist is found dead at his desk at one of the invasion sites.
As the small start-ups that received the messages are damaged and frightened by sneak attacks, Jake and his team must embark on a steep learning. But is the professor's death really to do with his pioneering scientific work, or is there more to it than meets the eye?
Review
"Gunn expertly blends the timely, headline-grabbing topics of GMO foods and climate change with credible characters and situations" Publishers Weekly
Review
Another solid police procedural from the reliable Gunn" Booklist
Synopsis
Rutherford's New Science businesses are being targeting in a string of office break-ins and threatening notes left by an environmental group. But curiosity turns to alarm when a lead scientist is found dead at his desk. Is the professor's death really to do with his pioneering scientific work, or is there more to it than meets the eye?
About the Author
Elizabeth Gunn is the author of the best-selling Jake Hines series of police procedurals set in Minnesota, where she grew up, and the Sarah Burke series set in Arizona, where she now lives. A long-time innkeeper with a taste for adventure, Elizabeth has lived 'everywhere' and been a private pilot and a diver, as well as a writer. She now lives in Tucson, Arizona and climbs mountains for fun.