Synopses & Reviews
Dr. Sophie Knowles is a math professor with a knack for creating complex puzzles that delight her students. But now, at the close of the academic year, she must solve a crime that doesn’t quite add up… At the math department’s graduation party, Sophie hears heated arguments coming from the graduates about Mayor Graves, the commencement speaker. Not the mayor’s biggest fan, Sophie is happy to escape the drama with an after-hours campus stroll accompanied by her helicopter-piloting boyfriend, Bruce Granville. However, their date is interrupted by the mayor himself—with a knife in his back.
As it turns out, the knife is actually a Henley College letter opener—something that is gifted to every member of the graduating class. Sophie is led to a complicated puzzle of scandal and corruption, and it seems that Mayor Graves is at the apex of it all. When Sophie finds out that the mayor was seeking her help on the day he was murdered, she must use her top-notch logic to crack the puzzle and catch the killer running free on campus…
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Praise for the Professor Sophie Knowles Mysteries
“Delightful…[A] most entertaining read.”—Miranda James, national bestselling author of File M for Murder
“[An] enjoyable new academic mystery series.”—Genre Go Round Reviews
“An engaging new protagonist with a fresh venue.”—Library Journal
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“Beth Kennedy gives amateur sleuths a good name.…For those of us who appreciate good characters, its just as satisfying as her first book.”—Lesas Book Critiques
“Alden has strong talent and a well-skilled use of language that brings the story alive and gives vitality to each character.”—Fresh Fiction
"Just wish I wouldnt have to wait so long to read the next in the series.”—MyShelf.com
Synopsis
Dr. Sophie Knowles teaches math at Henley College in Massachusetts, but when a colleague turns up dead, it's up to her to find the killer before someone else gets subtracted.
Synopsis
Dr. Sophie Knowles is a professor with a way of making even the most complex math problems fun for her students. But when the school's beloved librarian is found shot to death in the stacks, Sophie learns that her friend was more complex than she ever knew. Now, Sophie must take on some rigorous deduction homework before the chances for another murder on campus increase exponentially...
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Dr. Sophie Knowles loves using puzzles to make math fun for students. But when winter seizes Henley College, she must thaw out a cold case to track down a killerher most difficult puzzle yet . . . Winter Intersession is in full swing, and campus is buzzing over the concert celebrating the bell towers reopening. The building has been shuttered for twenty-five years, and Sophies shocked to learn whya student leapt from it to her death. But shes even more troubled by the secrecy surrounding the case. After Sophie performs some quick calculations, shes left with a nagging question: Was it really suicide?
When one of Sophies favorite students, a performer in the concert, is brutally beaten and left in a coma, Sophies mind kicks into overdrive. The horrific incidents seem too coincidental to be unrelated, but can Sophie put together the pieces from a twenty-five-year-old murder before any other students get hurt?
Synopsis
As the Tarver Elementary School PTA president, Beth Kennedy is always on the goespecially when someone puts murder on the agenda.
Beth has been running nonstop to be the best PTA president, bookstore owner, and single parent ever, which is why her friend Marina is staging an intervention. Beth needs to take a breakand that means letting someone else organize the PTAs upcoming eightieth-anniversary event.
But when Cookie Van Doorne, one of the event speakers, dies of suspicious causes, Beth decides to make an intervention of her own to find out what happened. When she discovers that Cookie was poisoned, the next order of business is catching a killer whose break is almost over.
About the Author
Ada Madison is the pen name of Camille Minichino. Camille is a retired physicist and math teacher and the author of eight other mysteries as well as short stories and articles. Shes also Margaret Grace, the author of the Miniature Mysteries.