Death without Tenure
A Karen Pelletier Mystery

Professor 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 tenure. Then Professor Joseph Lone Wolf, her rival for the one tenured spot in the department, whose ethnicity gives him minoritypreference status, is found dead from an overdose of Peyote buttons. Karen, first on the list of suspects, is harassed by a homicide cop with a grudge against his colleague, the love of Karens life, Lieutenant Charlie Piotrowski.On campus, political passions rage. Two of Karens favorite students, Khalida Ahmed, a hijabwearing Muslim, and Hank Brody, a coalminers son on full scholarship, are caught up in the furor.Without the presence of her beloved Charlie, now serving a tour of duty in Iraq with the National Guard, will Karen be able to survive the investigation, protect her students, and find a permanent niche in the world of academia? And what if the killer feels the need to strike again?