Death in the Age of Climate Change: The Dome, The Stone, The Battery

Professor Trevelyan, a distinguished academic approaching a mid-life crisis,  is pulled out of his comfortable academic life and into a vortex of mysteries involving climate change.  He teams up with the brilliant Philadelphia Detective Naomi Tanaka, whose Asian-American background and family history inspire her to work for justice.  Together, they encounter a world of kidnapping, murder, and violence. In the first story, "The Dome," Trevelyan discovers a ruthless scheme of global proportions that promises to save the world, providing a haven from the terrors of climate change--but only for the very wealthy.  In the second, Trevelyan and Tanaka track a murderer who seems fixated on Native American artifacts, and Trevelyan comes close to becoming yet another of his victims.  In the third, Trevelyan's friend, a chemist, is kidnapped on the verge of releasing his revolutionary invention of a new kind of battery that will transform electric vehicles.   Philadelphia and its neighborhoods are the background for these stories that find Trevelyan and Tanaka falling into mysteries and falling in love as they discover that climate change is not only changing the planet but changing human motivation.