Entertaining and philosophical, paints a picture of what it might have been like then but the mystery part of it was a little disappointing. Leads seemed to come out of nowhere by chance rather than cleverly leading from one to the next. ( )

OK mystery novel set in Los Alamos, N.M. ( )

This is a really good book. The mystery is very well crafted, and the author paints a very full portrait of the setting (Los Alamos during the Manhattan project) and the people involved in the project.

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Not what I expected at the end. ( )

An excellent, multi-layered mystery with a provacative bite. Investigating a murder, our lead character gets drawn into an an incestuous community of scientists driven to create an atomic bomb. "We have all learned to be monsters in this war." When the battle is joined, don't we risk becoming exactly what we suppose ourselves to be fighting? A thought-provoking and human exploration of moral choice. ( )