Inspector Lewis Series V: The Soul of Genius     In a case
already mired in layers of mystery, Lewis contends with another
obstacle, the maddening amateur sleuth Michelle Marber. This
self-styled Miss Marple attempts to redirect suspicions to a
local medical researcher, Dr. Alex Falconer, but Michelle too
harbors secrets. Hathaway, equally enamored of the philosophical
text and botanist Liv Nash, is restless. But when a second death
brings the inscrutable into terrifying clarity, Lewis and
Hathaway move to catch the killer and put the soul of genius to
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spoilers  While trying to uproot an invasive shrub, Oxford
botanist Liv Nash unearths the corpse of Professor Murray Hawes.
Murray was a troubled genius, obsessed with solving the literary
puzzle posed by Lewis Carroll in his baffling poem The Hunting
of the Snark.  Lewis and Hathaway soon find that Murray had a
jealous brother, Conor, a