Teaching American women's literature at New England's prestigious Enfield College has shown Karen Pelletier just how cutthroat the world of academe can be. But nothing in her tenure has prepared her for the perils to come, as this bastion of higher learning throws open its doors to a cleverly calcul[...]

Joanne Dobson is the author of three previous Karen Pelletier mysteries ? The Raven and the Nightingale, The Northbury Papers, and Quieter Than Sleep, which was nominated for an Agatha Award. An associate professor of English at Fordham University, she lives in Westchester County, New York.[...]

In classic noir tradition, English Professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when her office door opens and a famous Private Eye novelist enters. The author is dogged by Trouble (a Rottweiler) and by a problem. And since Sunnye Hardcastle (a Patricia Cornwell lookalike) will be a featured speaker in [...]