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The Chemical Reaction

Fast-paced, high-octane thriller featuring globe-trotting chemical engineer Dr Jaq Silver.

Jaq Silver can’t catch a break. After escaping almost certain death at the hands of her old chemical industry employers, she soon finds herself up to her neck in even hotter water. Deep in debt, she decides to take on a risky contract in China to earn money and investigate the rather mysterious disappearance of an old student. Nothing is as it seems, never more so when the factory completely vanishes overnight...From fraudulent art auctions in London to a troupe of male strippers in Shanghai, the mystery of the vanishing factory begins to look ever more complicated as the days pass. Can Jaq work out what happened – and whether it has anything to do with her nemesis Frank Good – before time runs out? As Jaq is pulled further and further into a murky underworld of deceit and corruption, things soon take an explosive turn.


Author:

  • Fiona Erskine

Narrator:

  • Gabrielle Glaister

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 13 h 43 min

Language:

English


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    Fiona Erskine

    Fiona Erskine is a professional engineer based in Teesside, although her work has taken her around the world. As a female engineer, she has often been the lone representative of her gender in board meetings, cargo ships and night-time factories, and her fiction offers a fascinating insight into this traditionally male world. She is the author of The Chemical Detective and The Chemical Reaction. The Chemical Detective was shortlisted for the Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award. Her second thriller in the Jaq Silver series, The Chemical Reaction, was shortlisted for the Staunch Prize.

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