Jane M. reviewed on 9/12/2013 + 65 more book reviews

This is the second in a series of six "modern mysteries of academic proportions," to quote one reviewer's compliment*. The protagonist is a PhD at an elite New England private college, whose position in academic life belies her roots as a feminist, working-class single mother who chomps at the bit to stir up the staid world of her patrician department. Author Dobson, a professor at Fordham, might be cheerfully settling some personal scores in her pointed and often funny depictions of the characters that populate the life of a professor of literature. She's also pretty good at spinning a mystery yarn that invariably ends up depending on historical literary figures for a solution.
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