Professor

A gripping campus thriller for fans of Karin Slaughter, about a murder investigation that brings a female detective into the darkest corners of academic life: power, lies, sex, and ambition.

Detective Marlitt Kaplan is back. After her last case, she bears scars both mental and physical, mostly about the terrible fire that consumed her home and nearly took her off the force. Though she is nominally back at work, she's not out on the streets of Athens, Georgia on homicide cases. Her superiors don't think she's ready, and neither does her mother, a UGA professor. But that changes when she needs Marlitt's help clearing a fellow academic's name.

College sophomore Ethan Haddock's death was quickly declared a suicide. But as rumors emerged about an alleged affair between Ethan and his professor Verena Sobek suspicions of homicide arise. At her mother's urging, Marlitt returns to police work independent of her old office, determined to uncover the mystery behind Ethan's death and his abnormally close relationship with Verena.

Once again Marlitt is forced to question the power structures ingrained in the classroom and how far one is willing to go for a friend.