Someone at Professor Laura Murphy’s college appears to be
playing a joke on her by planting sexually explicit stories in her research
results, but the joke turns deadly when one story details the recent stabbing
murder of a coed. Laura’s close friend, Detective Derrick Pasquis from the
local police, asks for her help in interviewing the prickly suspects who resist
intervention from outside the campus community. Eager to search out clues,
Laura ignores warning signs that playing amateur sleuth may jeopardize her
newly developing romance with Guy. And of course her usual intrusive manner
puts her at odds with everyone on campus—colleagues, the college
administration, the head of campus security and fraternity members. Is there no one Laura can’t offend in her
eagerness to find the truth? The closer she gets to solving the crime, the more
it appears that the past—the coed’s, that of a prominent faculty member and
Laura’s own—is the key to the murder. Caught in an early winter blizzard, Laura
must choose between wandering the mountains and freezing to death or taking her
chances with a killer clever enough to make murder look like the work of an
innocent student.
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Lesley retired from her life as a professor of psychology and
reclaimed her country roots by moving to a small cottage in the Butternut River
Valley in upstate New York.
In the winter she migrates to old Florida—cowboys,
scrub palmetto, and open fields of grazing cattle, a place where spurs still
jingle in the post office, and gators make golf a contact sport. Back north, the shy ghost inhabiting the
cottage serves as her literary muse.
When not writing, she gardens, cooks and renovates the 1874 cottage with
the help of her husband, two cats and, of course, Fred the ghost, who gives
artistic direction to their work.
She is the author of a number of mystery series
(Microbrewing Series, Big Lake Mystery Series, Eve Appel Mystery Series and the
Laura Murphy Mysteries), a standalone mystery (Angel Sleuth) and numerous short stories.
Visit her on her website: www.lesleyadiehl.com
