Death Without Tenure
$25.20
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2012
Summary
Karen Pelletier is about to realize her dream. After six years in the English Department at New England’s exclusive Enfield College, she is up for a tenured position. But when her rival for the one available tenured spot is found dead from an overdose of Peyote buttons, Karen is first on the list of suspects. Now a homicide cop with a grudge against Lieutenant Charlie Piotrowski, the love of Karen’s life, is breathing down her neck.
On campus, political passions rage, inflamed by the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590587096 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159058709X |
| Author: | Joanne Dobson |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Series: | Professor Karen Pelletier Mysteries |
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Critics Review
Karen’s sixth case…has everything you’d expect from an academic mystery—civilized dialogue, literary allusions, venal administrators, miasmal paranoia…. * Kirkus Reviews *
Dobson, who teaches at Fordham University, provides an amusing and accurate view of academia with her au courant plot and colorful characters. * Booklist *
This sixth series title (after The Maltese Manuscript ) shows off Dobson’s command of feeding readers small clues that lead them in circles until the solution is revealed. Fans of academic mysteries will savor this one. * Library Journal *
Fans will enjoy the New England English professor who puts aside her companion The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson to investigate who killed her rival. * Midwest Book Review *
Agatha-finalist Dobson’s sixth mystery…trots out a plague of academic bugaboos, including drugs, false credentials, plagiarism, faculty in-fighting and hate crimes. When Karen… starts playing detective, things heat up quickly. * Publishers Weekly *
Joanne Dobson
Joanne Dobson teaches English at Fordham University. Her first Professor Karen Pelletier academic mystery was an Agatha Award nominee. Death Without Tenure is sixth in the series. Joanne and her husband live in the New York City area and have three grown children.
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