The Strange Attractor

The Strange Attractor

Winner of the Sunday Times' Best Crime novel of the year, Desmond Cory returns with a near-perfect mystery novel , written with intelligence and laced with wit.<br /><br />For John Dobie, absent-minded maths professor, the death of a student provokes bewilderment, but little else. Who was Sammy Cantwell, after all?<br />But being drugged, tied up and made witness to another murder forces his usually dormant curiosity, especially when the murdered woman turns out to be his errant wife.<br />With the discovery of a second murdered woman in his bed in the space of a few hours, it is obvious he needs help. The police? No, help from someone with sense. Who better than the ex-student's agreeable landlady, pathologist Kate Coyle, to mould him, albeit unwillingly, into amateur sleuth?<br /><br />"Rich in wonders of computers and intangibles. Wry, scatty with a decisive byte" SUNDAY TIMES<br /><br />"A gas - even for high-tech dunces" THE GUARDIAN<br /><br />"Cory goes in for complex plots, but the joy of the book lies in the wit of its writing" TABLET<br />