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Cold Catalyst: A Garth Myers Mystery

Cold Catalyst: A Garth Myers Mystery

Beckman, John
Doyle, Frank

Paperback

Series: Garth Myers Mysteries

Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction

ISBN13: 9798993691183
Publisher: On the M.A.R.C. Publishers LLC
Published: Mar 4 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Cold Catalyst is a literary suspense novel set against the winter-bound campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where a containment failure in a biochemistry lab exposes more than a scientific anomaly. When a researcher vanishes during a severe storm and thermal readings suggest heat rising from beneath a sealed laboratory floor, Professor Garth Myers and a small circle of colleagues are drawn into an investigation that reaches far below campus infrastructure-and far deeper into institutional memory.

As storm conditions lock down the city, administrators move quickly to control the narrative. Missing schematics, disabled safety monitors, and long-decommissioned sub-basements hint at a buried system still active beneath the university's foundations. What begins as a procedural emergency evolves into a study of pressure: scientific, political, and psychological.

Blending atmospheric tension with intellectual inquiry, Cold Catalyst explores how complex systems adapt under scrutiny-and how danger often hides behind the appearance of stability. As evidence shifts and loyalties fracture, Garth must confront a force that behaves less like sabotage and more like a reaction long set in motion. Some catalysts accelerate change. Others expose what has been waiting all along.

At once a campus thriller and a meditation on accountability, memory, and structural failure, Cold Catalyst continues the Garth Myers Mystery series with a story where the greatest threat is not chaos, but control.

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