Karen Pelletier Mystery series by Joanne Dobson (Books #3, 5 and 6)
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Overview: At mid-life, after two decades as an English professor, Joanne Dobson surprised herself (and her colleagues!) by writing a mystery novel set at a small, elite New England college where the curriculum seems to offer a major in murder. She was even more surprised when QUIETER THAN SLEEP was published by Doubleday. It was nominated for an Agatha Award for best first novel, and in 2001 the New York State Library Association named Joanne Noted Author of the Year for writing novels librarians enjoyed recommending to readers.
Genre: Mystery
3. The Raven and the Nightingale (1999)
When feisty young Professor Karen Pelletier receives a serendipitous scholarly bonanza in the form of never-before-seen manuscripts and journals by the nineteenth-century poet Emmeline Foster, who is rumored to have killed herself for the love of Edgar Allan Poe, she finds herself going head-to-head with Enfield College’s resident Edgar Allan Poe expert, Elliot Corbin, an academic windbag of monumental proportions. When Corbin is stabbed to death in mysterious circumstances, Karen has an airtight alibi, but other academic suspects abound. Then it begins to look more and more as if Corbin’s death may be inextricably entwined with the muse of his life—poet of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. State police investigator, Lieutenant Piotrowski, calls on Karen’s literary expertise, and she is involved once more in the thankless task of investigating her not-so-collegial colleagues. Will Karen Pelletier ever free herself from the academic mayhem that plagues her as a yet-untenured professor? "Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’"
5. The Maltese Manuscript (2003)
In classic noir tradition, English professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when her office door opens and a famous crime novelist enters. The author is dogged by Trouble, a Rottweiler, and by a problem. And since the tough-gal celebrity writer, Sunnye Hardcastle, is keynote speaker at the upcoming Enfield College Women’s Studies conference on Crime Fiction, Karen is hooked. Little does she expect a priceless manuscript to be stolen from the college library, the thief to be found dead in the library’s closed stacks, and her famous client to be suspected of both crimes. All this occurs smack dab in the middle of the conference, and Karen must use her investigative skills to detect which of the many conferees has set out to Deconstruct Death.
6. Death without Tenure (2009)
Professor 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 tenure. Then Professor Joseph Lone Wolf, her rival for the one tenured spot in the department, whose ethnicity gives him minority-preference status, is found dead from an overdose of Peyote buttons. First on the list of suspects, Karen is harassed by a homicide cop with a grudge against his colleague, the love of Karen’s life, Lieutenant Charlie Piotrowski. On campus, political passions rage. Two of Karen’s favorite students, Khalida Ahmed, a hijab-wearing Muslim, and Hank Brody, a coal-miner’s son on full scholarship, are caught up in the furor. Without the presence of her beloved Charlie, now serving a tour of duty with the National Guard in Iraq, will Karen be able to survive the investigation, protect her students, and find a permanent niche in the world of academe? And what if the killer feels the need to strike again?
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