Mortal Words Author:Kathryn Lasky Knight, Jane Chelius Children's book illustrator Calista Jacobs (last seen in Trace Elements ) and her teenage son Charley are back in a new mystery featuring fundamentalist extremists, archeology and computer-enhanced genetic research. Calista and two of her colleagues are verbally attacked--called "immoral" influences--at a children's literature conference in Bost... more »on. Then one of them is murdered, and both Calista and the other author receive threats. Charley's computer internship at an MIT research lab inadvertently dovetails into the murder, and when the police prove unhelpful, mother and son launch their own investigation, including a covert visit to the Bible college of a popular creationist preacher. As the scientific elements of the case become too complex for even brainy Charley to unravel, archeologist Archie Baldwin is brought in to help.« less