Smart, But Dead
An Aggie Mundeen Mystery
2nd Edition
Published on 18. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
242 pages
978-1-7341175-6-1 (ISBN)
Description
ACADEMICS CAN BE MURDER
With two brilliant women scientists awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a gene-editing tool, this is a timely entertaining mystery with updates from genetic research scientists in the afterword.
Skirting forty and appalled by the prospect of slip-sliding into middle-age, Aggie Mundeen blasts off to the local university to study the genetics of aging and provide youthful hints for readers of her column, "Stay Young with Aggie." She is doggedly determined to stay young. Despite conflicts with her professor, she learns about genetics and DNA. When she discovers a dead professor, the San Antonio detective urges her to avoid the investigation. But dangerously curious and programmed to prod, she races to solve the crime, flusters the academics, winds up prime suspect and is on target to become next campus corpse.
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Series
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7341175-6-1 (9781734117561)
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Author Nancy G. West, a San Antonio native, was a business major grad who returned to study English literature and discovered that writing fiction was a lot more fun than accounting. She is the award-winning author of psychological suspense, the Aggie Mundeen Rom-Com Mysteries, and The Plunge, a June 2019 selection of ALA'S Book Club and lead-in novella to The Lake Mysteries, a spin-off series with Aggie in a new job and location. West's suspense coming-of-age novel for teens and adults, RISKY PURSUIT, comes out in February 2025.