The Professor Karen Pelletier Mystery Series
Some comments about the Professor Karen Pelletier Mystery series:
"Joanne Dobson Skewers the world of academe with her murderously funny sleuth, Dr. Karen Pelletier. They both deserve a long tenure on any mystery lover's bookshelf.
-Francine Matthews
"In her first work of fiction, Joanne Dobson demonstrates that she is a worthy colleague of Amanda Cross. Further, her protagonist, assistant professor of English Karen Pelletier, is an appealing character for the nineties and beyond, who has already gone where Cross's Kate Fansler has not gone before—i.e., into the jaws of near-death."
-Dianne Day
Anyone who thinks that the word 'academic' is synonymous with 'detached' needs to read Professor Dobson's tale of seething passions and deadly animosities within the English Department of Enfield College. It's a cutthroat world, academia, polished and elegant though the blades may be, and the author captures all the nuances of jealousy and fear that lie beneath the foundations of the ivory tower. Emily Dickinson, shall we say, with a stiletto in her hand."
-Laurie R. King