Author: maryangela
Spring is coming up roses for Professor Emmeline Prather. Her book is finished, her classes are almost finished, and her love life is in full bloom. Then the Shakespeare Festival begins, and a tempest ensues-not the Shakespearean kind.
It’s December in Copper Bluff, and from hillside to hallowed hall, everyone is merry—or will be as soon as semester break arrives. Students are studying, professors are grading, and Emmeline Prather is anticipating the university-sponsored holiday concert. Friend and colleague Lenny Jenkins will be accompanying the visiting quartet, Jazz Underground, and Em can’t think of a better way to … kick-start the holiday season. But before she can say “Jingle Bell Rock,” trouble arrives at Candlelight Inn, the bed and breakfast where the quartet is staying. One of the band members dies unexpectedly, and suspicion falls on Em, whose altercation…
A small town college professor puts a school trip to Paris on hold to catch a killer “in this clever academic mystery” (Publishers Weekly). Professor Emmaline Prather is an English teacher by trade and a Francophile at heart. This semester, she’ll finally travel to Paris, along with her French colleague, André Duman, as faculty chaperones on a student trip. But before she can utter her first … before she can utter her first bonjour, a teacher dies, the plane is grounded in Minneapolis, and Em must return to Copper Bluff, South Dakota, with an unstamped passport and a crime…
An English professor investigates a college town murder in this “deftly crafted novel of unexpected twists and surprising turns” (Midwest Book Review). In the small town of Copper Bluff, South Dakota, English teacher Emmeline Prather is enjoying the start of a new semester–until one of her students dies while working on the fall musical. The police rule the death accidental, but Professor … accidental, but Professor Prather suspects foul play. Em recruits fellow instructor Lenny Jenkins to help her comb the campus for clues–risking their reputations and possibly their careers. And when an intruder breaks into Em’s house,…