The Fractal Murders: A Pepper Keane Mystery

Mark Cohen. Muddy Gap Press, $13.95 (282pp) ISBN 978-0-9718986-0-8

In The Fractal Murders: A Pepper Keane Mystery, Mark Cohen's lively first novel, Boulder, Colo., math professor Jayne Smyers hires PI Pepper Keane to look into three apparently unrelated deaths-except all the victims, she has discovered, were researching those strange geometric forms, fractals. You don't have to be able to balance your check book to enjoy this clever puzzler, which has been selected as a fall Book Sense 76 Top 10 Mystery.

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