Joanne Dobson, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-59058-039-4
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 bestselling feminist author Sunnye Hardcastle, herself a dozen or so contradictions, who...
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Joanne Dobson, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (230p) ISBN 978-1-59058-709-6
Agatha-finalist Dobson's sixth mystery to feature English professor Karen Pelletier (after 2003's The Maltese Manuscript
) earns a passing grade. Karen is up for the sole open tenure spot in her department at Massachusetts's Enfield...
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Joanne Dobson, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-48693-4
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 Karen Pelletier (introduced in Quieter Than Sleep,
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Joanne Dobson, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-49339-0
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 Piotrowski solve a murder. This time the deceased is...
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Joanne Dobson, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-49340-6
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 reporter Marty Katz that the best novel of the 20th
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Joanne Dobson, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-48692-7
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 closet at the annual Christmas party. Assured by the
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Joanne Dobson and Beverle Graves Myers. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (390p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0032-8
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 boarding house. Nurse Louise Hunter has her eyes opened...
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Bill Moyers, Author, Joanne Dobson, Author Doubleday Books $29.95 (361p) ISBN 978-0-385-48345-2
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 Moyers now seeks to do the same to stories...
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