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In the latest installment of Camille Minichino's fun, fast-paced Periodic Table mystery series, retired physicist Gloria Lamerino and her fiancé, homicide detective Matt Gennaro, attend the wedding of Gloria's best friend in California. Unfortunately, the groom has disappeared along with some top-secret research on nitrogen.
As Gloria and Matt try to figure out a connection between the missing groom and the absent classified nitrogen research, the body count rises.
Author Notes
Camille Minichino has been a regional president and board member of the Mystery Writers of America, the California Writers Club, and Sisters in Crime. Her Periodic Table Mysteries ( The Hydrogen Murder, The Helium Murder, The Lithium Murder, The Beryllium Murder, The Boric Acid Murder, and The Carbon Murder ) feature Gloria Lamerino, a retired physicist who lives above her friends' funeral parlor and consults with the police on science-related cases. Like the amateur sleuth in her books, the author has a Ph.D. in physics and a long career in research and teaching. She currently teaches physics at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. She also teaches fiction writing and works as a scientific editor in the Engineering Department of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Camille lives with her husband and satellite dishes in Castro Valley, California. This is her seventh novel.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In Minichino's diverting seventh entry in her periodic table series (after 2004's The Carbon Murder), Gloria Lamerino, who's part Mary Worth and part Jessica Fletcher, finds that even a simple California trip for a close friend's wedding involves her in murder. When the work partner of the groom's daughter, an EMT, is shot dead, apparently by a mugger, Gloria gets suspicious because the groom, Philip Chambers, has too much information about the crime. After learning that the thief was after a briefcase connected with Chambers's secret government research on nitrogen, she conjures up a broad conspiracy with implications both for national security and the bride's happiness. Gloria and her own significant other, Massachusetts homicide detective Matt Gennaro, make an engaging couple. Cozy fans who don't require a twisty solution to the whodunit will be well satisfied. Agent, Elaine Koster. (May 9) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Here comes the bride, but where's the groom? Once more to the wedding chapel for chic Elaine Cody, this time with chemist Philip Chambers, a consultant to Dorman Industries. On hand for the Berkeley nuptials is Elaine's best friend Gloria Lamerino, Bay State scientist and wildly impassioned snoop, and her lover Matt Gennaro, a cop recovering from prostate cancer. But the wedding plans go belly up when a gunshot victim the groom's daughter Dana, an EMT, is transporting to the hospital dies and her EMT partner Tanisha is shot and killed in the parking lot. Dana's apartment is ransacked, and clues tie the first victim, Lokesh Patel, to one of Dana's roommates, secretive Robin, and to her dad, who suddenly disappears. The puzzle deepens when someone fiddles with Dana's Valley Med work-assignment sheets, local cops find pilfered drugs in Tanisha's belongings, a briefcase containing secret nitrogen files is emptied, and bullets whiz past Gloria during a B&E at Patel's supposedly empty house. Could the missing Philip be not just a bridegroom with cold feet, as Elaine fears, but a killer on the lam? It's up to Gloria and Matt (The Carbon Murder, 2004, etc.) to set matters straight as they eye their own nuptials. Minichino's latest spin through the periodic table is a charmingly wry look at marriage the second, third and fourth time around. If only the plot didn't combust at the end. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Why is Minichino's Gloria Lamerino series unique? It's elementary--in the sense that each adventure revolves around an element in the periodic table. This time it's highly combustible number seven: nitrogen. But another key element of the series is quite human: its amiable protagonist, Lamerino. The retired physicist of a certain age loves teaching, drinking espresso, and spending time solving mysteries with her fiance, homicide detective Matt Gennaro. Here, Gloria and Matt have left their Boston-area home to attend the wedding of Gloria's friend Elaine in Berkeley. Although a fellow scientist, Elaine's fiance, Phil, rubs Gloria the wrong way. Exactly what is the highly classified research he is doing on nitrogen? As her suspicions grow, Gloria alienates Elaine, but when Phil goes missing, the two friends must reunite to find him. In addition to its bizarre premise, Minichino's series features many original touches. For example, though they may not be spring chickens, Gloria and Matt are portrayed convincingly as passionate lovers. A series so entertaining that even certified chemistry haters will hang on every molecule. --Jenny McLarin Copyright 2005 Booklist
