A Class on Murder
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Publisher Description
Ronnie Raven. She's smart, she's funny, and she might be next on a killer's list! As the half-Cherokee, half-Irish daughter of a noted Indian artist, Ronnie Raven grew up learning to speak her mind. After years of trying to find her place in the world, she's settled in as a Behavioral Psychology Professor at her Oklahoma alma mater, Pursley University. When Ronnie's not rebelling against dress codes or the expectations of her department head, she enjoys teaching. That is, until she returns from a disastrous spring break to stumble across the body of a very dead colleague. Although framed to look like a suicide, it doesn't take the police long to figure out that Weldon Crutchfield was murdered!
No one liked Crutchfield, least of all Ronnie. But since when is that grounds for murder? When a detective investigating the crime wants to pin the crime on her, Ronnie becomes a rebel with a cause as she tries to learn who killed Crutchfield, before she’s locked up or becomes the killer’s next victim. Ronnie discovers that many people had a reason to kill the professor. Was it the department head that Crutchfield was blackmailing? A student Crutchfield was sexually harassing? The flunking football player? Or a colleague who wants to take Crutchfield's place in the university hierarchy?
Can Ronnie Raven find out who the killer is with the help of her drama professor best friend and a campus cop who just might be a new romantic interest?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set at Oklahoma's Pursley University (aka PU), Gibson's entertaining mystery debut introduces psychology professor Ronnie Raven, who's half-Cherokee and half-Irish. When Ronnie storms into the office of a most unlikable colleague, Weldon Crutchfield, to yell at him, she finds Crutchfield dead in his chair with a bullet wound in his chest. One unpleasant cop, Detective Melvin, immediately pegs Ronnie as the guilty party, but there are plenty of other possible perps at PU, and Ronnie means to get to the bottom of things with help from some suspiciously nervous students and her best friend, drama professor Terry Panetta, not to mention a campus cop, Mick LeGrand, who's interested in more than the crime. Getting in her way are the wary department head, Zachariah Bent, and the assailant who gives Ronnie a concussion. Readers will too easily identify the killer, but cozy fans will appreciate the charm and humor.
