| International Standard Book Number |
9780778387503
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| International Standard Book Number |
077838750X
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6
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| Personal Name |
Schaumberg, Amie, author.
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| Title Statement |
Murder by the book : a novel / Amie Schaumberg.
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| Imprint |
Ontario : Mira Books, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
337 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Near a small college campus, a student is found strangled in an abandoned barn on the outskirts of town. She's been posed to look like a painting of Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the scene taunting the police with a message they don't understand. Detective Ian Carter is known as a straitlaced cop, but seeing the girl's body leaves him shaken and uncertain of where to turn, until a chance meeting with a charmingly awkward literature professor ends with her accidentally seeing, and solving, a clue left by the killer. Professor Emma Reilly knows that the books she loves might hold the key to unraveling the killer's crimes now that a second murder has been discovered, with the victim posed as the Lady of Shalott this time. However, when the murderer strikes too close to home and kills a third student, one from Emma's classes, she realizes that the safety of her insular life might be nothing more than an illusion. She must find the strength to confront a killer who is turning the stories she loves into lurid scenes of death."--Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Private investigators Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women college teachers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
College students Crimes against Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
English literature Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Oregon Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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