{"product_id":"9781623650674","title":"The Dinosaur Feather","description":"Selected by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan as her favorite mystery of 2013 and one of the top ten mysteries of the year by The Wall Street Journal’s Tom Nolan, S.J. Gazan's debut novel \u003ci\u003eThe Dinosaur Feather\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of Scandinavian noir. With keenly observed and deeply flawed characters, this scintillating thriller uniquely employs one of the most controversial and fascinating areas of contemporary dinosaur and avian research in its diabolical twists. \u003ci\u003eThe Dinosaur Feather\u003c\/i\u003e has been published in more than a dozen countries and won the Danish Crime Novel of the Decade Award. The\u003ci\u003e Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e called it “a top-flight thriller—smart and outrageously entertaining.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBiology postgraduate, PhD hopeful, and single mom Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the saurian origin of birds when her academic supervisor, the highly respected yet widely despised Dr. Lars Helland, is found dead in his office chair at the University of Copenhagen. The police discover a copy of Anna’s thesis in the dead man’s bloody lap. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen the autopsy suggests that Helland was murdered in a fiendishly ingenious way, brilliant but tormented young Police Superintendent Søren Marhauge begins the daunting task of unraveling the knotted skeins of interpersonal and intellectual intrigue among the scientists at the university. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone involved with the investigation— from Anna Bella Nor to Helland’s numerous rivals to Marhauge’s own ex-wife, who is pregnant with her current husband’s child— has something to hide, complicating the investigation and presenting the detective with the greatest professional and personal challenge of his career. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Quercus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139487580400,"sku":"9781623650674","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781623650674_p0.jpg?v=1763860770","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781623650674","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}