***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...

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...

The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down—and protect—before others can get their hands on it.Just days after mathematician and family patriarch Isaac Severy dies of an apparent suicide, his adopted granddaughter Hazel, owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives a letter from hi...

“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...