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Author
Series
Alexandra Blake thrillers volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Geneticist Alexandra Blake uses her expertise to investigate a serial killer plaguing military bases across the country, but when an another murder hits close to home, Alex and her boyfriend, a Texas congressman, find their lives in danger.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Naples, 1750. Three men with swords burst into the palazzo of a marquis in search of a secret. Accused of being an imposter, the false marquis escapes over the rooftops. Baghdad, 2003. An army unit on a routine mission discovers a state-of-the-art lab where dozens have died in gruesome experiments. The scientist escapes, leaving a puzzling clue behind: a symbol of a snake feeding on its own tail. As the power of the symbol is revealed, one unsuspecting...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implications. Yvonne Carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice. He wears the beautiful pin-striped suit he wore on their first meeting in the Houses of Parliament, when he put his hand on her elbow, guided her to a deserted and ancient...
4) Hybrids
Author
Series
Neanderthal parallax volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the Hugo-Award winning Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry - making him the ultimate stranger in a strange land. In that book and in its sequel, Humans, Sawyer showed us the Neanderthal version of Earth in loving detail - a tour de force of world-building; a...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A novel inspired by the life of the scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1983, follows Kate Croft who attends college in 1920 and, confused by her own sexuality, finds refuge in the rationality of biology and genetics. In 1920, having persuaded her resistant mother to send her to college, Kate Croft falls in love with science. But science turns out to be marred by human weakness. Despite her hard work and extraordinary gifts, Kate struggles, facing...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sol and Liz are a couple on the cusp. He's a professional cyclist in the Tour de France, a workhorse but not yet a star. She's a geneticist on the brink of a major discovery, either that or a loss of funding. They've just welcomed their first child into the world, and their bright future lies just before them--if only they can reach out and grab it. But as Liz's research slows, as Sol starts doping, their dreams grow murkier and the risks graver....
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