Bad Chemistry: A Novel - Tapa dura

Former Chicago police officer Kate Baker searches for her missing husband--a suspected international drug trafficker, murderer, and experimental drug user--and becomes entangled with a troubled teenage computer hacker

emistry poses an unsettling question: How much do we really know about the people we love--or about ourselves?

Kate Theodorus used to be a cop in Chicago.  Eager to escape the ugliness and violence of police work, she moved to Washington, D.C., to create a new life for herself as a social worker.  There she married Joel Baker, a successful entrepreneur whose edgy nonconformism--so different form the conservatism of her overprotective family of Greek cops--seemed to mesh perfectly with her new conception of herself.  Three years later, on a snowy November night, Joel leaves the house to pick up some groceries.  He never returns.  Kate embarks on a search for her husband--and for the truth about the parts of his life that he has hidden from her.  When the police unearth evidence connecting Joel to illegal drug trafficking and a murdered biochemist, Kate finds herself thrust back into the familiar world of clues, surveillance