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Third in her elemental murder mystery series (I can't wait to check out hydrogen and helium) starring retired-physicist sleuth Gloria Lamerino (rhymes with neutrino), set in Revere, Massachusetts.
A part-time amateur sleuth with a friend who's a homicide detective (and a possible love interest in the novel), Gloria is always going off on her own and getting information. And getting in trouble, too.
This is a very good-humoured series; there was a really funny moment at a restaurant called 'The Periodic Table,' with beakers and flasks for tableware. The author is a retired physicist herself, so you really appreciate the touch.
Lithium, used in state-of-the-art batteries, provides one possible motive for murder. Gloria is an upstairs tenant in a beachfront mortuary, convenient indeed for getting more information when the family and friends gather round to pay their last respects to yet another slabbed victim.
I'm a little worried about the fifth book in the series (the fifth element is boron), but I'm looking forward to number four, which would the beryllium murder ("Accident? Gary Larkin is a beryllium expert. He'd never have an accident. There must have been foul play!")
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