Asked why she is fascinated by the 'popular' (read 'trashy') novels of 19th-century writer Serena Northbury, Professor Karen Pelletier says, 'She's the only novelist I know from that era who writes about the kind of courage it takes t...
Scholar Karen Pelletier cuts her Christmas vacation short when she finds a body in a closet at her college's annual holiday party. Soon another body turns up, and Karen believes that the deaths are somehow linked to a letter written b...
When a New York Times reporter asks college professor Karen Pelletier to name the best novel of the 20th century, Pelletier mischievously names a long-out-of-print potboiler about a scandal in a small New England town. The accolade ca...
An unexpected bequest sends waves of violence through the placid groves of academe in Joanne Dobson's third mystery to feature Professor Karen Pelletier.Still untenured, and therefore on shaky academic ground, feisty young Enfield Col...
Death Without Tenure (Karen Pelletier...
Joanne DobsonProfessor Karen Pelletier is about to realize her dream; after six years in the English Department at New England's exclusive Enfield College, she is up for tenure. Then Professor Joseph Lone Wolf, her rival for the one tenured spot i...
The Maltese Manuscript: A Karen Pelle...
Joanne Dobsonn classic noir tradition, English Professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when her office door opens and a famous Private Eye novelist enters. The author is dogged by Trouble (a Rottweiler) and by a problem. And since Sunnye Hardcast...