Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Quercus, is The Dinosaur Feather by S. J. Gazan.
For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for November 2013. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of November 2013 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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The Dinosaur Feather
S. J. Gazan
Biology graduate Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis at Copenhagen University on the origin of birds when her supervisor Lars Helland is found dead in his office, his severed tongue lying on his bloodied shirtfront, a copy of her thesis lying in his lap. Helland has been deliberately infected with a rare parasite that only an expert in the field would have access to Police Superintendent Søren Marhauge is assigned to unravel what appears to be a series of related intrigues in the Biology Department.
When Anna Bella's fellow graduate and close friend is also killed, the murders seem to be linked not only to the university but also to Anna herself. As Marhauge investigates he must enter the imbroglio of the university — the bitter competition and scores to be settled among colleagues vying for the same scarce grants and promotions — and learn the dark secrets of this seemingly tame corner of academia.
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