They called her ‘The Ice Queen.’ Dr. Rosenthal with her ruthless ways, her ambitious career climbing, her no-nonsense administration. When she is killed, everyone at Northland University becomes a suspect.
But the investigation at Northland turns up more than a simple murder mystery.
Here, on the idyllic campus near the Lake Superior shoreline, a morass of academic egos, love triangles, and department politics strains the capabilities of small town investigators. When the victim’s corpse suddenly disappears, the police are completely baffled…
And suddenly too interested in Marian Davis, the shy grad student who first discovered Rosenthal’s body.
Hounded by cops, and harassed by Rosenthal’s true killer, Marian learns that she herself will have to solve the murder, to rescue her academic career, to regain her peace of mind, perhaps to save her very life.
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This murder mystery features computer hacking, social engineering, psychology, and a slice of academia–the grad student life on a cozy campus in a small, Northern Michigan town.
