A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2024“Many and wondrous are the charms of this witty, suspenseful, and enchanting book.” —The Wall Street JournalThe discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe in this thrilling new novel from the Edgar Award–nominated aut...

***One of The Wall Street Journal’s “25 Best Mystery Novels of the Last 25 Years”*Edgar Award NomineeA “hugely entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) mystery starring “a Royal Tenenbaums-esque clan of geniuses” (Martha Stewart Living)—perfect for fans ofRichard Osman and Janice Hallett.**Days after the death of her adoptive grandfather, the mathematician Isaac Severy, Hazel Severy receives a letter. In this puzz...

“Many and wondrous are the charms of this witty, suspenseful, and enchanting book.” —The Wall Street JournalA suspicious death at a renowned Swiss laboratory raises unnerving questions in this “science-based thriller that fuses physics and philosophy in mind-bending ways” (Booklist)—from the Edgar Award–nominated author Nova Jacobs.Deep beneath the ground outside of Geneva, where CERN’s Large Hadron Collid...