An excellent mystery by a great author.

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This small (5x8) book has only 150 pages, and I could not have handled one page more. It was mostly feminist rant, the kind that appeals to radical feminists and, unfortunately, can therefore be used against them. There was no real plot or story line, and it was completely illogical. BTW, what wasn't feminist propaganda was at the other end of the spectrum, romance. Kate was getting the hots for everything in pants. I can't tell you how disappointed I was with this book. Read at your own risk!!

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This author is the master (mistress?) of the twisty plot. Mysterious characters abound, and red herrings swim freely. Good story, but not for rednecks.

From back cover: While guest-teaching a semester at Schuyler Law School, Kate Fansler gets to know an extraordinary secretary named Harriet, who patterns her life after John le Carré's character George Smiley. Harriet reveals that Schuyler has some serious skeletons swinging in its perfectly appointed closets, including the fate of Schuyler's only tenured female professor and a faculty wife who has killed her husband.
As if Kate doesn't have enough to tackle, she is also up against the men who comprise the faculty of Schuyler itself -- a thoroughly unapologetic bastion of white male power, mediocrity, and misogyny. Although she has only a few months on campus, Kate refuses to let Schuyler's rigid ideals and insistence on secrecy suppress her indefatigable curiosity -- or her obsession with the truth.

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Kate Fansler, professor and indefatigably curious solver of puzzles, searches for academic dirt at Schuyler Law School.
"Lighthearted and witty." back cover blurbs.

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