The Semester of Our Discontent

Agatha Award Winner: "An engaging heroine, a college setting that will have you aching to go back to school, and a puzzler of a mystery." --Laura DiSilverio, national bestselling author of the Readaholics Book Club Mysteries
 
English professor Lila Maclean is thrilled about her new job at prestigious Stonedale University--until she finds one of her colleagues dead. When she herself is suspected of involvement--by everyone from the chancellor to the detective working the case--she has no choice but to assign herself the role of amateur detective.
 
More attacks on professors follow, and the only connection is a curious symbol at each of the crime scenes. Putting her scholarly skills to the test, Lila gathers evidence, but her search is complicated by an unexpected nemesis, a suspicious investigator, and an ominous secret society. Rather than earning an "A" for effort, she receives a threat featuring the mysterious emblem and must act quickly to avoid failing . . . and becoming the next victim.
 
This Agatha Award winner for Best First Novel is "a pitch-perfect portrayal of academic life with a beguiling cast of anxious newbies, tweedy old troublemakers and scholars as sharp as they're wise" (Catriona McPherson, author of the Dandy Gilver series).
 
"Kuhn is phenomenal at conveying the tension-filled atmosphere that inundates higher institutions, where one's fate rests entirely on a few out-of-touch, pompous faculty members." --Kings River Life Magazine
 
"A very intricate, cool story featuring the depth of an institution where everyone is dying to climb the ladder of success." --Suspense Magazine