L'ÉQUATION DU CHAT

December 31. The twelve strokes of midnight echo through Cambridge. On one side of the River Cam, a sordid murder. On the other side, a scientific experiment. January 1, early morning. Hammond McLeod, a young dean at St Andrew's School of Biological Sciences in Scotland, has come to Cambridge to sign an important research partnership. Noreen Hartwick, though supposedly his associate in the matter, is still hesitating, for Doug Sherman, the new director of the university computer laboratory and cosignitary of the partnership, wants to bring in a third party, Laurel Brunner. But she's a specialist in a field that has nothing to do with the two young biologists' project: quantum physics. Shut away in her office, she carries out her experiments on her own Hammond asks his assistant, Martha, to find a way of thwarting Sherman. And Martha, though a complete novice in the subject, sets out to tackle quantum physics and its mysteries

In the space of a day, this fast-paced crime novel takes the reader from present-day England to Austria between the wars. Right up to the final dénouement.

Christine Adamo is a teacher-researcher specializing in environmental information management. She is the author of, among others, three novels mixing science and suspense: Requiem pour un poisson (sold in the Netherlands, Italy, and China), Noir austral (sold in the Netherlands and Italy), both published in paperback by Folio, and Web Mortem.