Formula for Murder

A young physicist witnesses his mentor's death on a remote space station. The official verdict: accident. But as Jim Britten submits to experimental psychotherapy, the procedure begins pulling apart the fabric of his memories. What surfaces is a nightmare of academic jealousy, suppressed rage, and a connection to something far more sinister than a single murder. Rothman builds his thriller with the cold precision of the vacuum surrounding his setting, letting the psychological tension unfold like decompression. The 1950s paranoia runs through every session, every revelation, as the line between victim and perpetrator dissolves. This is crime fiction filtered through science fiction's alienation, a genre experiment that asks whether truth can survive when the mind itself becomes the crime scene.