Death Without Tenure: A Professor Karen Pelletier Mystery

Despite a promising premise, this latest Karen Pelletier mystery is more academic than smart. Pelletier, associate professor of English at prestigious Enfield College, causes a sensation by telling Continue reading »

Having brought Joseph Campbell's ideas on world mythologies (The Power of Myth, 1988) and the intricacies and rhythms of modern poetry (The Language of Life, 1995) to a general audience, journalist Continue reading »

Agatha-finalist Dobson's sixth mystery to feature English professor Karen Pelletier (after 2003's The Maltese Manuscript ) earns a passing grade. Karen Continue reading »

Contradicting the joke that academic infighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small, a $10 million bequest may figure in murder at prestigious northeastern Enfield College. English professor Continue reading »

In Dobson's new Karen Pelletier mystery (after Quieter Than Sleep and The Northbury Papers), the young English professor again applies the rules of scholarly research to help hunky Lieutenant Continue reading »

After a semester spent avoiding the advances of a colleague, Karen Pelletier, Emily Dickinson scholar and a new professor at an elite New England college, has the bad luck of finding his body in a Continue reading »

In her fifth Prof. Karen Pelletier mystery, Dobson (Quieter Than Sleep) offers an academic novel both gutsy and romantic. Sound contradictory? It is, thanks to Continue reading »

Set mostly in December 1941, this disappointing first in a new series from Dobson (Death Without Tenure) and Myers (Her Deadly Mischief) focuses on a group of young women living at a Brooklyn Continue reading »