Free from the Labyrinth (The Characters Compilation, #11)

It's New Year's Eve and Professor Duncan Price, an internationally-renowned physicist with a reputation for his work on time theory and quantum mechanics, is found dead in his study. While there are no obvious signs of why he died, on his desk is a sleek, black sphere, no larger than a cricket ball or baseball. A glowing red pinprick of light pulses from it at regular intervals. Added to this, the victim's brother, Noah, has gone missing. All of which convinces Detective Inspector Kelly Ros...