I read this book as part of a collection of series debuts.

The plot was interesting enough, although I kept wondering why the police would need to know the nitty-gritty of a scientific research for a murder investigation. I also kept wondering why anyone would ever have any room for dinner if they all were snacking on canolli so much.

Gloria pours over the print-out of a scientific research in the hope to find some clues. At the bottom of the print-out are three symbols she can't explain.

Spoiler

These are the last letters the victim typed and turn out the be the murder's initials. Why the murder typed initials rather than the name of the murderer (or the first three letters if he was stopped in the process of typing) makes little sense to me. I doubt he would call the murderer by their initials.

There were too many little annoyances in this book for me to consider reading another one in the series, but I am curious what the covers for the Tungsten (W) and the Potassium (K) murders will look like.