College Murders

Jasper College is buzzing with the news that famed literature professor Richard Aldiss will be teaching a special night class called Unraveling a Literary Mystery - from a video feed in his prison cell. In 1982, Aldiss was convicted of the murders of two female grad students; the women were killed with axe blows and their bodies decorated with the novels of notoriously reclusive author Paul Fallows....

Harry Carr is the legendary college football coach who takes no prisoners. Even to the point of forcing his star quarterback off his unbeaten team, because the QB didn't want to play in garbage time with a twice-broken nose. No one really likes the hard-driving, hard-drinking Harry—they just glom onto his success. Well, there's one AP wire reporter who still likes Harry, even for the dinosaur that he is. John Morris calls the sports stories as he sees them, but watches in wonder as Coach Carr lives his precarious, anachronistic existence. Until that star quarterback is found gruesomely ...

Dr. Clyde Renner, professor of geology, chair of the department, world renowned expert on volcanoes and earthquakes, and intellectual giant, is dead, apparently of a heart attack, alone in his insect-infested house. Leonard Branch, campus cop at Renner’s small liberal arts college in Iowa, is convinced there’s more to Renner’s demise than appears on the death certificate. Gideon Marshall, paleontologist, now acting chair, plays host to a parade of characters, including Ranner’s bullied secretary and accountant, a belligerent female prof, an untenured young scientist and his hot-...

The 6th and final book in the "Matthew Diggerson Mystery" series about a college composition teacher forced to turn sleuth. This last tale takes "Digger" back to his roots and introduces a new canine companion, Blue.

Book 4 in the Matthew Diggerson Mysteries series: this story takes place a year after "Marked for Murder" ended.

KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE -- AND YOUR FRENEMIES CLOSER Successful attorney Molly Reid thought she had put the past behind her. But when the body of her flaky but lovable college roommate, Sarah, is discovered abandoned in a field, Molly is drawn back into the tangled incestuous world of Devereaux College. At Sarah’s wake, Molly confronts her ex-fiancé, the bitchy college friends who still treat Molly like the slutty wrong-side-of-the-tracks scholarship student she once was, and Sarah’s mother, who forces Molly to take Sarah’s rehab journals. As Molly sifts through Sarah’s scrawled ...

Julia Ybarra and Roman Coppola first met in a business event and could not let go of each other. But they were already married to their respective spouses. Can they ever be able to be together? Julia Ybarra was married at eighteen before going to college, before falling in love. She blamed her parents and she hated her husband for ruining her youth, for ruining her first taste of freedom as an adult and never looked up to anyone because she was overwhelmed with the fear of adultery. She drowned herself in building a stable career to get over her complex personal life. Roman Coppola’s ...

Darren was just getting settled into life at college when his world was turned upside down. After he and his research partner stumble upon a network of tunnels beneath the campus, his research partner goes missing. Now the faculty are covering it up. After Audrey steps into his life and into the tunnel with him, the pair try to uncover what they soon realize is bigger than anything they ever expected. Something lies in the darkness of the tunnels. Something that is growing. Something that they must stop at all costs.

A lot has changed in the years since Ambrosia Wellington graduated from college, and she’s worked hard to create a new life for herself. But then an invitation to her ten-year reunion arrives in the mail, along with an anonymous note that says: We need to talk about what we did that night. It seems that the secrets of Ambrosia’s past - and the people she thought she’d left there - aren’t as buried as she thought.

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