Nova Jacobs
Autore di The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues
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- Data di nascita
- 20th century
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts (MFA)
- Agente
- Lisa Bankoff
- Breve biografia
- [from author's website]
Nova Jacobs has an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her novel The Last Equation of Isaac Severy, a literary mystery set in the world of mathematics, was named a Best Mystery of 2018 by The Wall Street Journal and nominated for a 2019 Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. She is co-writer with Donnie Eichar on the nonfiction mystery and New York Times best-seller Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
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- Opere
- 2
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 540
- Popolarità
- #46,139
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 27
- ISBN
- 12
When the body of a young, brilliant physicist is found in the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the director calls in her college friend Sabine Leroux, a private investigator, to determine not only how Howard Anderby died but how he found himself in the tunnel in the first place. Sabine studied Physics in college but decided that police work and later private investigation were the career for her. She sees much similarity between her job and the jobs of scientists. Fearing for CERN's funding, the director would greatly prefer not to have to call in the police.
As Sabine investigates, she finds herself dealing with all sorts of academic rivalries and secrets as she tries to learn about the life of a man who was very good at keeping his own secrets. Luckily for us readers, the story is also told in part by Eve who is another physicist at CERN. Eve also had a relationship with Howard and has more insight into his mind than anyone at the lab. The story also includes a large number of flashbacks detailing Eve and Howard's growing relationship and Howard's relationship with some of the others at CERN.
But when a second physicist is murdered and his body shows on a live stream of a tank built to capture dark matter, it is impossible to keep the police away from CERN. The second death also shifts the investigation to missing data from the lab and the scientific rivalries between the EU, China and Russia. Spies and moles and traitors to CERN are revealed in the conclusion of this mystery.
Once I allowed myself to skim lightly over the physics and the philosophy, I enjoyed this story. The characters were what kept me reading when the science went too far over my head. I recommend this one especially to science nerds, but mystery lovers will enjoy it too.… (altro)