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Detective Lindsay Boxer and her colleagues track down an elusive suspect—her husband—in this Women's Murder Club novel

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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper john hayes series Detective Lindsay Boxer and herJohn Allen Paulos is a master at shedding mathematical lights on our everyday world: What exactly did Lani Guinier say about quotas? What is the probability of identifying a murderer through DNA testing? Which are the real risks to our health and which the phony ones? Employing the same fun filled, user friendly, and quirkily insightful approach that put Innumeracy on best seller lists, Paulos now leads us through the pages of the daily newspaper,