When her Nobel laureate husband is murdered, biologist Katrina Stone can no longer ignore the secrecy that increasingly pervaded his behavior in recent weeks. Her search for answers leads to a two-thousand-year-old medical mystery and the esoteric life of one of history’s most enigmatic women. Following the trail forged by her late husband, Katrina must separate truth from legend as she chases … medicine from ancient Italy and Egypt to a clandestine modern-day war. Her quest will reveal a legacy of greed and murder and resurrect an ancient plague, introducing it into the twenty-first century.
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Science thrillers tend to fall into one of two categories: mostly science, or mostly thriller. Michael Crichton’s early works tended to straddle the line fairly well, and I hear Andy Weir’s The Martian does, as well (it’s in my to-read pile). Debut author Kristen Elise delivers a pretty good science/thrills balance in The Vesuvius Isotope, an …