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A Quantum Murder

A Quantum Murder is a novel by Peter F. Hamilton. It is the second book in the Greg Mandel trilogy, between Mindstar Rising and The Nano Flower.

Plot summary

The following is a synopsis for A Quantum Murder:

Professor Edward Kitchener: a double Nobel Laureate researching quantum cosmology for the Event Horizon conglomerate - but no good to anybody dead and with his lungs spread out on either side of his open chest.

The security system at Launde was premier-grade gear. But a mercenary could have got through and there were plenty of people anxious to stop his work who would pay the necessary. But why would a professional waste their time ritually slaughtering their target?

Something doesn't gel. Was Kitchener the victim of industrial espionage, personal revenge or of a crime of passion committed by one of his live-wire students?

Event Horizon needed to know, and fast, so Greg Mandel, Psi-boosted ex-private eye, is enticed out of retirement to find himself on a convoluted trail that ends in a confrontation with a past which, according to Kitchener's theories, might never have happened.^{[citation needed]}

Release details

• 1994, USA, Tor Books (ISBN 0-330-33045-4), Pub date ? April 1994, paperback (First edition)
• 1996, USA, Tor Books (ISBN 0-614-08674-4), Pub date ? April 1996, unbound
• 1997, USA, Tor Books (ISBN 0-312-85954-6), Pub date 1 November 1997, hardback
• ?, USA, Tor Books (ISBN 0-8125-5524-4), Pub date ? ? ?, paperback (mass market)