Death Without Tenure [Paperback]

Karen Pelletier is about to realize her dream. After six years in the English Department at New Englands exclusive Enfield College, she is up for a tenured position. But when her rival for the one available tenured spot is found dead from an overdose of Peyote buttons, Karen is first on the list of suspects. Now a homicide cop with a grudge against Lieutenant Charlie Piotrowski, the love of Karens life, is breathing down her neck.

On campus, political passions rage, inflamed by the politically-correct English Department chair and by the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Whiteness Studies. Two of Karens favorite students are caught up in the furor.

Will Karen be able to survive the investigation, protect her students, and find a permanent niche in the world of academe, all without her beloved Charlie, now serving with the National Guard in Iraq?

Dobson, who teaches at Fordham University, provides an amusing and accurate view of academia with herau courantplot and colorful characters.Fans will enjoy the New England English professor who puts aside her companion The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson to investigate who killed her rival.Karens sixth case...has everything youd expect from an academic mysterycivilized dialogue, literary allusions, venal administrators, miasmal paranoia....This sixth series title (after The Maltese Manuscript ) shows off Dobson's command of feeding readers small clues that lead them in circles until the solution is revealed. Fans of academic mysteries will savor this one.Agatha-finalist Dobsons sixth mystery...trots out a plague of academic bugaboos, including drugs, false credentials, plagiarism, faculty in-fighting and hate crimes. When Karen... starts playing detective, things heat up quickly.