Booked for Death Author:Miriam Borgenicht True, Celia Sommerville waited ten days before her wedding to tell her fiance she couldn't marry him. But she never anticipated the cold censure from their colleagues at the university -- which worsened considerably when George's body turned up in a sleepy Vermont town. Dead of a broken heart -- and a self-inflicted gun shot wound. — Dete... more »rmined to prove that cautious, pedantic George would not have taken his own life, Celia goes to Cedar Springs to investigate. Dear George, it seems, had his scholarly nose in some nasty business. A lot of people had a reason to want him dead. The question was: who pulled the trigger?
From Publisher's Weekly
Displaying the inventiveness and wit that make her a favorite of mystery fans, Borgenicht presents her 15th tale of deceit and murder. Celia Sommerville is snubbed at the university where she works after she jilts her fiance, professor George Theroux, and he kills himself in a small Vermont town. Sure that the stiff, selfish man never would have committed suicide, Celia decides to prove he was murdered. With the help of her one remaining friend, Jason Bailey, she goes to the town to help retired, nearly blind Professor Ellsworth, father of George's prep-school classmate Roy, who had died years earlier. Ideas from Ellsworth's theories on child-rearing (the basis of his current book) generate Celia's suspicions about the Ellsworth family, with whom she becomes warily involved: the late Roy's managing widow, their disreputable offspring and an in-law who vanishes inexplicably. At the height of tension, Jason appears to add surprises to the solution of a crime which is anything but academic, regardless of the characters' milieu.« less