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The game’s afoot. Or maybe it’s a chromosome. You know how the trend in detective fiction is toward heroes who aren’t cops but rather cat owners, rabbis, shrinks or Notre Dame profs-often reflecting the author’s job, as with anthropologist Kathy Reichs and prosecutor Linda Fairstein? Chicago’s Lori Andrews, a renowned lawyer specializing in DNA technologies, has, in her first novel, “Sequence,” concocted a sleuth named Dr. Alexandra Blake, who is–what else?–a geneticist. Quick, Watson, my polymerase.
