Nova Jacobs. (2018). The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Nova Jacobs. 2018. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues. Blackstone Publishing.

Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues. Blackstone Publishing, 2018.

Nova Jacobs. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2018.

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     Nova Jacobs holds an MFA degree from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and is a recipient of the Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down-and protect-before others can get their hands on it.

Just days after mathematician and family patriarch Isaac Severy dies of an apparent suicide, his adopted granddaughter Hazel, owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives a letter from him by mail. In it, Isaac alludes to a secretive organization that is after his final bombshell equation, and he charges Hazel with safely delivering it to a trusted colleague. But first, she must find where the equation is hidden.

While in Los Angeles for Isaac's funeral, Hazel realizes she's not the only one searching for his life's work, and that the equation's implications have potentially disastrous consequences for the extended Severy family, a group of dysfunctional geniuses unmoored by the sudden death of their patriarch.

As agents of an enigmatic company shadow Isaac's favorite son-a theoretical physicist-and a long-lost cousin mysteriously reappears in Los Angeles, the equation slips further from Hazel's grasp. She must unravel a series of maddening clues hidden by Isaac inside one of her favorite novels, drawing her ever closer to his mathematical treasure. But when her efforts fall short, she is forced to enlist the help of those with questionable motives.

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     Starred review from January 8, 2018
     The apparent suicide of a legendary mathematician drives Jacobs’s intricate and moving first novel. Isaac Severy, renowned for having developed complex predictive equations for seemingly random events, such as “the erratic pattern of melting ice in the Arctic,” dies in the backyard hot tub at his L.A. home after being electrocuted by a string of Christmas lights. His granddaughter, Hazel Severy, the owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives one last letter from him, postmortem. In the letter, Isaac states that he hopes not to evade the assassin who has been following him; asks Hazel to destroy his “work in Room 137,” except for one equation, which she must hand over to a man whose “favorite pattern is herringbone”; warns her not to stay in his house after October 31st; and tells her that he is but the first of three people who will die. Hazel attempts to honor her grandfather’s cryptic last requests and solve his murder. Plausible depictions of psychologically wounded characters enhance the surprising plot twists. Agent: Lisa Bankoff, Bankoff Collaborative.

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   • content: In an upbeat, involving narration of this fun and quirky mystery, Lisa Flanagan does a fine job of allowing listeners to become only as confused as the author intends. Trust her not to let you sink beneath the clues, and you'll have a fine time trying to figure out what the devil mathematician Isaac Severy's posthumous final directive means. You see, Severy, who seems to have committed suicide, left his granddaughter, Hazel, a letter asking her to destroy his work. He promises to explain it all if she follows a list of clues. As Hazel hunts for answers, she's helped and hindered by Isaac's dysfunctional family of mathematicians and by a mysterious corporation. Flanagan handles the action and range of characters with aplomb. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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Just days after mathematician and family patriarch Isaac Severy dies of an apparent suicide, his adopted granddaughter Hazel, owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives a letter from him by mail. In it, Isaac alludes to a secretive organization that is after his final bombshell equation, and he charges Hazel with safely delivering it to a trusted colleague. But first, she must find where the equation is hidden.

While in Los Angeles for Isaac's funeral, Hazel realizes she's not the only one searching for his life's work, and that the equation's implications have potentially disastrous consequences for the extended Severy family, a group of dysfunctional geniuses unmoored by the sudden death of their patriarch.

As agents of an enigmatic company shadow Isaac's favorite son-a theoretical physicist-and a long-lost cousin mysteriously reappears in Los Angeles, the equation slips further from Hazel's grasp. She must unravel a series of maddening clues hidden by...

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