Landrace

When a leading plant biologist is murdered, reform school graduate Petra March, his companion, must team up with a not-so-typical burglar to clear her name and stop a crop pandemic. Their uneasy alliance takes them from a coal cellar in Boston to a seed bank in Colorado to the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, as they pursue and are pursued in a quest that becomes more personal and more deadly.
Non-stop action and captivating characters make this novel a page-turner.