The Dark Matter

They're here. Some know. And knowledge is dour.

A brilliant cosmologist has jumped to her death from her office. Her satellite, designed to peer into the hidden architecture of the universe, was destroyed seconds after launch. The official story: a broken woman who had just seen her life's work ignite in the sky. Case closed.

Detective John Prosser doesn't buy it. Not when unmarked federal agents swarm the campus. Not when calls from shadowy officials pressure his department to look the other...