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Murder 101 - Maggie Barbieri
Murder 101
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Safely away from the chaos of Manhattan, St. Thomas, a small college on the banks of the Hudson River in the Bronx, is supposed to be tranquil, bucolic, and serene. Unfortunately, English professor Alison Bergeron has found it to be anything but. Recently divorced from a fellow professor and even... show more
Safely away from the chaos of Manhattan, St. Thomas, a small college on the banks of the Hudson River in the Bronx, is supposed to be tranquil, bucolic, and serene. Unfortunately, English professor Alison Bergeron has found it to be anything but. Recently divorced from a fellow professor and even more recently without a car---it was stolen---she has been hoofing it to school. One Friday evening, two NYPD homicide detectives drop by her office. The good news is that they found her beat-up Volvo; the bad news is that the body of one of the students in her Shakespeare seminar was in the trunk. Not only are Alison's chances of getting the car back bleak, but suddenly she's the primary suspect on a list that includes, among others, the murdered student's drug-dealing boyfriend, Vince, and the girl's father's business rivals (he's head of an old Italian family . . .). Accused of a crime that she didn't commit, Alison enlists her best friend, Max's, emotional support and services as an amateur sleuth. Their fumbling efforts to clear Alison's name could land her in even hotter water with Detective Bobby Crawford, the handsome investigating officer (and former altar boy)---not to mention the nuns at St. Thomas. . . . Maggie Barbieri's charming professor and down-to-earth detective make an unlikely but lovable team in her delightful debut mystery.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780312355371 (0312355378)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Series: Murder 101 Mystery (#1)
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CJ the Book Peddler
CJ the Book Peddler rated it
3.0
3.5Not amazing but not bad. Quirky if slightly weird main.
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What is Kimberly reading now? rated it
4.0 Murder 101 (Alison Bergeron Mysteries)
This series reminds me of Nancy Martin's Blackbird sisters series. I really like that series as well as this one. There's something about evolving story-lines that draws me in and has me reading books like this in an afternoon.
inconceivably
inconceivably rated it
3.0 Murder 101 (Alison Bergeron Mysteries)
These are very quick reads - I read them all over the course of a couple of afternoons. They don't really have any depth or emotional content - but they do settle very nicely into the cozy mystery/romance niche. If you're a fan of those types of books (think Stephanie Plum) than these are definitely...
Vellichor Afternoons
Vellichor Afternoons rated it
2.0
This was seriously bad, and I only finished it out of a desire to be done with it. (I have this thing about giving up on books--I've only not finished two in my life. Come to think of it, it would probably have been just fine if this had joined that list...)First, I enjoy mysteries as a sort of brai...
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