C.A.T. Caper

DEATH OF AN ACADEMIC STAR

When 136 English teachers converge on Boston's Beasley Center to score the essay section of the College Aptitude Test, one of them--the famous feminist professor Marilyn Milledge--is brutally killed.

The ready-made suspect for the shocking crime is a teenager with a grudge against the dead woman. But some of Marilyn's colleagues sense that the police may be reading the tragedy wrong, and thus quietly begin investigating on their own.

Behind the murder of Marilyn Milledge they discover enough subplots to challenge an advanced creative writing class: scandal among themselves, financial instability at the Beasley Center, unsavory deeds in the victim's past--and a desperate killer who is willing and able to kill again...