The Fluorine Murder
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The Fluorine Murder is the ninth story in the Periodic Table Mystery Series by Camille Minichino.
Watch retired physicist Gloria Lamerino juggle wedding plans with solving a case of arson and murder. If you like it, you're in luck: there are 109 stories to go!
Camille Minichino
Camille Minichino has been a regional president and board member of the Mystery Writers of America, the California Writers Club, and Sisters in Crime. Her Periodic Table Mysteries (The Hydrogen Murder, The Helium Murder, The Lithium Murder, The Beryllium Murder, The Boric Acid Murder, and The Carbon Murder) feature Gloria Lamerino, a retired physicist who lives above her friends' funeral parlor and consults with the police on science-related cases. Like the amateur sleuth in her books, the author has a Ph.D. in physics and a long career in research and teaching. She currently teaches physics at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. She also teaches fiction writing and works as a scientific editor in the Engineering Department of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Camille lives with her husband and satellite dishes in Castro Valley, California.
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The Fluorine Murder - Camille Minichino
The Fluorine Murder
Ninth Story in the Periodic Table Mysteries
Camille Minichino
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The Fluorine Murder
There's nothing special about a third wedding anniversary, unless your best friend has been waiting three years to get you to celebrate. Deprived of the pleasure of planning my wedding, Rose Galigani wouldn't stop nagging until Matt and I agreed to some form of public display.
It's leather,
Rose told me, as we sat on lawn chairs facing the geranium-filled back yard of the mortuary she ran with her husband.
I looked around. The seats were rattan. My purse was fabric. What's leather?
The traditional gift for third anniversaries is leather.
Who else knows this?
I asked.
It's a hard theme to deal with, but maybe we can work up something around luggage. We can have tiny suitcases for favors, but that means you'll have to take a trip right after the wedding, Gloria.
I checked her expression. Teasing or serious? It was never possible to tell for sure. Rose didn't ask for much in life, other than continued good business for her funeral home, which was pretty much guaranteed, and the freedom to provide a meaningful social life for those she loved.
We agreed to a small party,
I reminded her. Not a full-blown wedding. We're already married. And we're not twenty years old.
Homicide detective Matt Gennaro and I had run off, if fifty-somethings can be said to run, for a weekend in Vermont and had come back married. Thus, the delayed consumer-approved show of bliss.
Rose snapped her fingers. A Unity Candle. That's what you need,
she said. They do that at all the weddings these days. The mothers in each family light a small candle. Then the bride and groom use those flames to light a big candle in the middle, to symbolize the coming together of the two families.
I could have sworn her eyes started to