The Oxygen Murder: A Periodic Table Mystery

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		The Oxygen Murder: A Periodic Table Mystery
		The Oxygen Murder: A Periodic Table Mystery

基本信息·出版社：Minotaur Books
·页码：256 页
·出版日期：2006年08月
·ISBN：0312347863
·International Standard Book Number：0312347863
·条形码：9780312347864
·EAN：9780312347864
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Periodic Table Mysteries

内容简介 New York City welcomes Gloria Lamerino and her husband, homicide detective Matt Gennaro, in The Oxygen Murder, the eighth installment in Camille Minichino’s acclaimed Periodic Table Mystery series.
Gloria and her best friends, Rose and Frank Galigani, are on vacation in the Big Apple. They plan to visit Matt’s niece Lori Pizzano, a documentary filmmaker, and enjoy the holiday sights together: shopping on Fifth Avenue, dining in Little Italy, and honoring ancestors at Ellis Island, while Matt attends a conference with the NYPD.
Unfortunately, Lori’s documentary on ozone and environmental issues has deadly fallout. Gloria stumbles over the body of Lori’s scheming camerawoman in a Times Square loft, and, once again, she is thrust into some dangerous sleuthing.
With suspects ranging from a disapproving brother to a smooth-talking PR administrator to a self-protecting private eye, Gloria tracks a killer through an intricate landscape of colorful neighborhoods and famous landmarks.
Taking us on a trip from the city’s tallest building to its grand park, from its crowded ice rinks to a lonely corner of its two-million-square-foot museum, The Oxygen Murder is as exciting as a ride over New York City in a helium balloon.
作者简介 Camille Minichino has been a regional president and board member of the Mystery Writers of America, the California Writers Club, and Sisters in Crime. Like Gloria Lamerino, the author has a Ph.D. in physics and a long career in research and student instruction. She currently teaches physics at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. She also instructs on writing fiction and works as a scientific editor in the engineering department of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Ms. Minichino lives with her husband and satellite dishes in Castro Valley, California.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

In Minichino's eighth chemistry-themed mystery (after 2005's The Nitrogen Murder), Gloria Lamerino, a physicist, and her new husband, homicide detective Matt Gennaro, head to New York City for a much-anticipated Christmas holiday. But Gloria gets sidetracked from shopping and sightseeing when she discovers a murdered woman in the apartment of Matt's niece, Lori Pizzano, a documentary filmmaker. The victim is Lori's camerawoman, Amber Keenan, whose ambition and schemes could have provoked a number of suspects. Lori and Amber had been working on an environmental sciences documentary film about the ozone layer, and had encountered corporations that could be ignoring governmental safety regulations and using strong-arm tactics. Is Lori in danger, too? But Amber's other gig was as a photographer for a PI, and she may have aggravated more than a few questionable characters with her snooping. Cozy fans will find this a breezy summer read. (Aug.)
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From the Back Cover

Praise for Camille Minichino’s Periodic Table Mysteries
 
“You’ll love Gloria Lamerino and her friends.”
- Janet Evanovich, author of the Stephanie Plum series, on The Hydrogen Murder
 
“Sure-handed plotting and a most appealing star.”
- Booklist on The Helium Murder
 
“A tightly knit story with a heroine so refreshingly different that readers will be pleased to note that Minichino has 104 elements from the periodic table left to go.”
- Publishers Weekly on The Lithium Murder
 
“Lamerino’s blend of courage, reasoning, and perseverance, and a well-constructed plot, make for another attractive mystery in an impressive series.”
 - Publishers Weekly on The Beryllium Murder
 
“There’s no denying the flair in Minichino’s portrait of Italian Americans, or the charm of her energetic, quick-thinking heroine, who seeks both love and justice.”
- Publishers Weekly on The Boric Acid Murder
 
“Artfully mixing science and suspense, Minichino continues to make the most of her winning formula as she works her way through the elements.”
- Booklist on The Carbon Murder
 
“Gloria and her own significant other, Massachusetts homicide detective Matt Gennaro, make an engaging couple. Cozy fans . . . will be well satisfied.”
- Publishers Weekly on The Nitrogen Murder

From Booklist

In this eighth in the Periodic Table series, newly married physicist Gloria Lamerino and her homicide-detective husband, Matt Gennaro, have left Revere, Massachusetts, to travel to New York City. With Matt at a law-enforcement convention, Gloria is free to enjoy New York with friends Rose and Frank Galigani. Then a colleague of Matt's niece, documentary filmmaker Lori Pizzano, is found dead in Lori's loft, and Lori is a possible suspect. Gloria, naturally, can't resist investigating. Facts about ozone and its effects on industrial workers are woven seamlessly into the story, as Lori shares her research on her upcoming documentary with Gloria, and Gloria reflects further on oxygen and the environment. Sympathetic characters, the examination of the close friendship between Gloria and Rose, and plenty of humor enliven an engrossing story framed by interesting information on the science of ozone. Sue O'Brien
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文摘 Chapter One 
You’d think it would be impossible to find yourself alone in New York City. Especially on a bright Sunday morning in December, only a couple of blocks from the dazzling supersigns of Times Square.
 
A short distance away, elbows and shoulders overlapped at crowded intersections. Couples and families had to hold hands to stay together. Holiday shoppers, packed as close as particles in a nucleus, strained their necks toward the glittery, animated ads for cameras and underwear, baby clothes and whiskey, surround-sound systems and Dianetics.
 
But here I was, the only person in the tiny, dark lobby of a narrow brick building, about to enter the smallest, oldest elevator I’d ever seen. Picture a dusty reddish-brown box with metal construction on three sides and a rickety accordion gate on the fourth. I hoped the indentations peppering its walls were only coincidentally shaped like bullet holes.
 
The blast of heat, comforting at first after the near-freezing temperature and gusty wind outside, now added to the swirls of dust around my nostrils.
 
I stepped inside the cage and pulled the squeaky gate across the opening. In the back corner, a janitor’s bucket and mop took up a quarter of the floor space. The smell of chlorine tickled my nose.
 
I could hardly breathe.
 
I looked up at the dented metal ceiling. Too bad there were no oxygen masks, like those demonstrated by our flight attendant on the plane from Boston’s Logan Airport.
 
I was no stranger to creepy environments—hadn’t I lived above my friends’ funeral parlor for more than a year? Done my laundry a few meters from their inventory of preservative chemicals and embalming fluid? Still, an uneasy feeling crept over me in the unnatural quiet of this space. I hunched my shoulders and pushed a scratched button with a worn-down label. Number 4, I hoped.
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