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A Study in Saturation: A Novel of Murder, Perimenopause, and the Creatine Science Every Woman Was Never Told (The Marrow Bay Mystery) - Softcover
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When physiologist Dr. Wren Calloway finds Margaret Okafor dead at the foot of her porch steps, she also finds something that doesn't belong: a stack of gold-labeled supplement tubs from a company called Keel Vitality.
Maggie was fifty-eight. She had been getting stronger for ten months. Six weeks ago, her bone density scan came back with a number that made Wren hold very still at her desk. Women like Maggie don't fall.
The creatinine in Maggie's post-mortem bloodwork will come back elevated, and Detective Eli Marsh will misread it — unless Wren can make him understand what the number means, what it doesn't mean, and why the supplement company behind those gold tubs has buried something in its certificate of analysis that is going to kill someone else before the week is out.
Set in the fog-banked harbor town of Marrow Bay on the Oregon coast, A Study in Saturation is a literary mystery built around the real science of creatine monohydrate — the most studied supplement in existence, a compound that builds muscle, protects bone, and supports brain function across the female lifespan, and that has been systematically undersupplied to women for decades.
Wren knows the literature. She has lived it. Now someone has weaponized the ignorance around it, and a woman she loved is dead.
Every study Wren cites in this hybrid fiction novel exists. Every claim she makes is sourced. A note on the science appears at the end of the book for readers who want to take the research further.
For women who have been handed a number that didn't add up and told to go home.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Women who are getting stronger do not fall down their own porch steps.Margaret Okafor was fifty-eight years old, rebuilding bone, and six weeks out from a scan that made her physiologist go very still at her desk. On a wet Tuesday in October she is dead at the bottom of those steps, and Dr. Wren Calloway is the only person in the harbor town of Marrow Bay who knows the number on that scan was right, and that everything built on top of it was a lie.What Wren finds on the porch does not belong there. A stack of gold-labeled supplement tubs from a company called Keel Vitality, sold quietly to half the women in her strength clinic. Sold to a friend. The creatinine in Maggie's post-mortem bloodwork will come back elevated, and Detective Eli Marsh will misread it, because nearly every physician he calls will misread it too. That confusion is not an accident. Someone has been counting on it.The science is real. The murder is fiction. The anger is both.Wren runs her clinic out of a converted boathouse on a fog-banked stretch of coast, and she has spent her career on the one question the research world spent fifty years refusing to fund: what happens inside a woman's body, decade by decade, when creatine monohydrate is quietly undersupplied to her for her entire adult life. Through perimenopause. Through menopause. Through every hormonal transition medicine has historically waved off with a shrug and a prescription pad. She knows the literature because she has lived it. Now a poisoner with a very good logo is selling directly into that ignorance.Detective Marsh has a body, a supplement company with a certificate of analysis that will not survive a serious look, and a witness who keeps being right before the evidence arrives. He has forty-eight hours. Wren has a dead friend, a notebook full of data, and nothing left to lose.A medical mystery for readers who want a woman at the center of it who actually knows things. A small-town murder novel with a female scientist, a detective willing to stay in the room, and a suspense plot built on real clinical evidence instead of hand-waving. For women over 50 who have been handed a number that did not add up and told to go home. For anyone who has ever suspected the label was doing more work than the product.Set in a small coastal town where everyone knows the tide table and nobody asks what is in the jar, this is a mystery novel with a working knowledge of physiology and a women's fiction novel with a body in it. Two readers will find it here: the one who came for the murder and stayed for the science, and the one who came for the science and did not expect to be up reading at two in the morning.Every study Wren cites in this novel exists. Every claim she makes is sourced. A plain-language note on the science appears at the back of the book for readers who want to take the research further.A Study in Saturation is Book One of the Marrow Bay Mysteries. Wren Calloway and Eli Marsh will return. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798187194711
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Women who are getting stronger do not fall down their own porch steps.Margaret Okafor was fifty-eight years old, rebuilding bone, and six weeks out from a scan that made her physiologist go very still at her desk. On a wet Tuesday in October she is dead at the bottom of those steps, and Dr. Wren Calloway is the only person in the harbor town of Marrow Bay who knows the number on that scan was right, and that everything built on top of it was a lie.What Wren finds on the porch does not belong there. A stack of gold-labeled supplement tubs from a company called Keel Vitality, sold quietly to half the women in her strength clinic. Sold to a friend. The creatinine in Maggie's post-mortem bloodwork will come back elevated, and Detective Eli Marsh will misread it, because nearly every physician he calls will misread it too. That confusion is not an accident. Someone has been counting on it.The science is real. The murder is fiction. The anger is both.Wren runs her clinic out of a converted boathouse on a fog-banked stretch of coast, and she has spent her career on the one question the research world spent fifty years refusing to fund: what happens inside a woman's body, decade by decade, when creatine monohydrate is quietly undersupplied to her for her entire adult life. Through perimenopause. Through menopause. Through every hormonal transition medicine has historically waved off with a shrug and a prescription pad. She knows the literature because she has lived it. Now a poisoner with a very good logo is selling directly into that ignorance.Detective Marsh has a body, a supplement company with a certificate of analysis that will not survive a serious look, and a witness who keeps being right before the evidence arrives. He has forty-eight hours. Wren has a dead friend, a notebook full of data, and nothing left to lose.A medical mystery for readers who want a woman at the center of it who actually knows things. A small-town murder novel with a female scientist, a detective willing to stay in the room, and a suspense plot built on real clinical evidence instead of hand-waving. For women over 50 who have been handed a number that did not add up and told to go home. For anyone who has ever suspected the label was doing more work than the product.Set in a small coastal town where everyone knows the tide table and nobody asks what is in the jar, this is a mystery novel with a working knowledge of physiology and a women's fiction novel with a body in it. Two readers will find it here: the one who came for the murder and stayed for the science, and the one who came for the science and did not expect to be up reading at two in the morning.Every study Wren cites in this novel exists. Every claim she makes is sourced. A plain-language note on the science appears at the back of the book for readers who want to take the research further.A Study in Saturation is Book One of the Marrow Bay Mysteries. Wren Calloway and Eli Marsh will return. Seller Inventory # 9798187194711
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Women who are getting stronger do not fall down their own porch steps.Margaret Okafor was fifty-eight years old, rebuilding bone, and six weeks out from a scan that made her physiologist go very still at her desk. On a wet Tuesday in October she is dead at the bottom of those steps, and Dr. Wren Calloway is the only person in the harbor town of Marrow Bay who knows the number on that scan was right, and that everything built on top of it was a lie.What Wren finds on the porch does not belong there. A stack of gold-labeled supplement tubs from a company called Keel Vitality, sold quietly to half the women in her strength clinic. Sold to a friend. The creatinine in Maggie's post-mortem bloodwork will come back elevated, and Detective Eli Marsh will misread it, because nearly every physician he calls will misread it too. That confusion is not an accident. Someone has been counting on it.The science is real. The murder is fiction. The anger is both.Wren runs her clinic out of a converted boathouse on a fog-banked stretch of coast, and she has spent her career on the one question the research world spent fifty years refusing to fund: what happens inside a woman's body, decade by decade, when creatine monohydrate is quietly undersupplied to her for her entire adult life. Through perimenopause. Through menopause. Through every hormonal transition medicine has historically waved off with a shrug and a prescription pad. She knows the literature because she has lived it. Now a poisoner with a very good logo is selling directly into that ignorance.Detective Marsh has a body, a supplement company with a certificate of analysis that will not survive a serious look, and a witness who keeps being right before the evidence arrives. He has forty-eight hours. Wren has a dead friend, a notebook full of data, and nothing left to lose.A medical mystery for readers who want a woman at the center of it who actually knows things. A small-town murder novel with a female scientist, a detective willing to stay in the room, and a suspense plot built on real clinical evidence instead of hand-waving. For women over 50 who have been handed a number that did not add up and told to go home. For anyone who has ever suspected the label was doing more work than the product.Set in a small coastal town where everyone knows the tide table and nobody asks what is in the jar, this is a mystery novel with a working knowledge of physiology and a women's fiction novel with a body in it. Two readers will find it here: the one who came for the murder and stayed for the science, and the one who came for the science and did not expect to be up reading at two in the morning.Every study Wren cites in this novel exists. Every claim she makes is sourced. A plain-language note on the science appears at the back of the book for readers who want to take the research further.A Study in Saturation is Book One of the Marrow Bay Mysteries. Wren Calloway and Eli Marsh will return. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798187194711
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