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Quieter than Sleep (Karen Pelletier, Bk 1)
Quieter than Sleep - Karen Pelletier, Bk 1 Author:Joanne Dobson Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts's elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined -- and that not even the privileged world of academia is immune to murder.... — Professor Karen Pelletier's prime literary passion is poet Emily D... more »ickinson -- a passion she shares with her hotshot colleague Randy Astin-Berger. Heir apparent to the head of Enfield's English department, the pompous Randy is the campus Casanova. That is, he was -- until he was found strangled with his own flashy necktie. The last person to see Randy alive -- and the first to find him dead -- Karen knows she must solve the case before she becomes the prime suspect. But to do that, she must first discover the truth behind Randy's final Dickinsonian discovery -- a literary bombshell that may well have been to die for....« less
Good characters, interesting premise. Good read. I enjoyed it. It immersed me into the rarified world of a small private East Coast College faculty, where arcane points of literature and tenure are matters of life and death.