Death Without Tenure (Hardcover) by Joanne Dobson

9781590585856. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 240. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 240 p. Professor Karen Pelletier Mysteries, 6. Professor Karen Pelletier is about to realize her dream; after six years in the English Department at New England s 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 minority-preference status, is found dead from an overdose of Peyote buttons. First on the list of suspects, Karen is harassed by a homicide cop with a grudge against his colleague, the love of Karen s life, Lieutenant Charlie Piotrowski. On campus, political passions rage. Two of Karen s favorite students, Khalida Ahmed, a hijab-wearing Muslim, and Hank Brody, a coal-miner s son on full scholarship, are caught up in the furor. Without the presence of her beloved Charlie, now serving a tour of duty with the National Guard in Iraq, will Karen be able to survive the investigation, protect her students, and find a permanent niche in the world of academe? And what if the killer feels the need to strike again?"