The Kate Fansler Mystery series by Amanda Cross (#1, 3, 4, 11, 13, 14)
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Overview: A psuedonym of Carolyn G. Heilbrun. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of important academic studies.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
In The Last Analysis (#1): When beautiful Janet Harrison asks English professor Kate Fansler to recommend a Manhattan psychoanalyst, Kate immediately sends the girl to her dear friend and former lover, Dr. Emanuel Bauer. Seven weeks later, the girl is stabbed to death on Emanuel’s couch–with incriminating fingerprints on the murder weapon. To Kate, the idea of her brilliant friend killing anyone is preposterous, but proving it seems an impossible task. For Janet had no friends, no lover, no family. Why, then, should someone feel compelled to kill her? Kate’s analytic techniques leave no stone unturned–not even the one under which a venomous killer once again lies coiled and ready to strike…
Poetic Justice (#3): Student riots have ravaged the distinguished New York City university where Kate Fansler teaches. In the ensuing disarray, the survival of the university’s plebeian stepchild, University College, seems doubtful. President Jeremiah Cudlipp is snobbishly determined to ax it; and as sycophantic professors fall in line behind him, the rally of Kate and few rebellious colleagues seems doomed. It is a fight to the death, and only a miracle, or perhaps a murder, can save their beloved institution…
The Theban Mysteries (#4): For a century, wealthy New York girls have been trained for the rigors of upper class life at the Theban, an exclusive private school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Kate Fansler is lured back to her alma mater to teach a seminar on Antigone. But a hostile note addressed to Kate, the uniform mistrustfulness of her six, bright students, and the Dobermans that patrol the building at night suggest trouble on the spot. As Kate leads her class through the inexorable tragic unfolding of Antigone, a parallel nightmare envelops the school and everyone connected with it…
An Imperfect Spy (#11): 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…
Honest Doubt (#13): Estelle Woodhaven, private investigator, has been hired to find the perpetrator of a bizarre murder in academe. Woody is a fat P.I., she always beats the client to the punch with that revelation, and also very competent, but here she’s a bit out of her element. A professor at the Clifton College English Department is dead from an overdose of his own heart medication slipped into his drink at a party in his home. Engulfed in a quagmire of infighting, deceit, literary allusions and overinflated egos, Woody calls for reinforcements. Enter Kate Fansler, professor and crimefighter extraordinaire…
The Edge of Doom (#14): Here, Cross takes her beloved protagonist into uncharted territory, turning Kate Fansler’s world upside down. Just when Kate Fansler thinks life couldn’t possibly hold any more surprises, she receives a phone call from Laurence, the eldest of her imperious brothers. But a woman as sharp as Kate knows that the moment one stops believing in life’s little bends in the road is the time when it has more twists in store. Kate has always been different from the other Fanslers-a free and independent thinker in a family where propriety and decorum are prized above all. She has always assumed it was because she was the youngest and the only girl in the family. But over a drink with Laurence, Kate’s whole understanding of herself is thrown into question as he calmly tells her that a strange man came to his office claiming to be Kate’s father-and it’s quite possible that she is not a Fansler after all. There are even more dangerous curves in the road for Kate Fansler, especially after she meets the man who calls himself her father. When more life-threatening secrets and lies emerge, Kate and the Fansler family are suddenly pitched perilously close to the edge of doom.
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