Scientists start turning up dead at CERN, which hires a private detective to sort it out before it blows up in the press and cuts their funding. I liked a lot of the focus on the culture of the lab, infighting about credit, and different cliques interacting. I'm all for catty academic infighting, and probably would've enjoyed it more if it'd leaned more into the comedy aspect.

The actual tone was more contemplative and melancholy, with one of the main characters constantly gripped by climate anxiety and wondering what the point of her research even was, and the other by nostalgia for past friendships. There's a bit of an adventure plot, and the mystery had a reasonable resolution, but the two-timeline storytelling killed the narrative tension for me, rather than building it. Overall, it was fine, but didn't really grab me. Points of grey ace lesbian detective, anyway.