When professor and amateur sleuth Kate Fansler accompanies a fussy friend to the rocky coast of Maine to peruse the papers of a famous, recently deceased author, she is horrified to come across one of her students, dead. Which leads her to one very important question, namely, would Max stoop so low as to murder...?

A propos de Max (A Kate Fansler Mystery #5)

La justice poétique

De son vivant déjà, Patrice Umphelby, écrivain et universitaire distinguée, se sentait prédestinée à semer la zizanie. Elle semble bien décidée à persévérer dans l'autre monde. En effet, son "suicide" provoque bien des remous sur un paisible campus de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. La disparue avait beau vouer un culte personnel à la mort, Kate Fansler doute qu'elle ait vraiment mis fin à ses jours. "Cette satanée bonne femme aurait elle-même orchestré son propre meurtre que ça ne serait pas mieux ficelé... Il n'y a nulle part le moindre indice, la moindre peruve...rien !" On n'a jamais vu plus mauvais point de départ pour une enquête !

Une Mort Si Douce

Literature professor and amateur sleuth Kate Fansler is taking a well-earned sabbatical with her new husband, Reed. However, her martini filled evenings are soon interrupted by a desperate appeal from her former and beloved Theban School to cover classes on Antigone. Not wanting to deprive students from Antigone's brilliance she rushes to New York, finding the Greek heroine's subversive will mirrored in her students who are caught up in the rebellion of protests, sex, and drugs. All is fun and chaos until a dead body is discovered in the old school building, can Kate get to the bottom of this sinister literary allusion?Amanda Cross's The Theban Mysteries will take you back to your school years and capture your attention till the very end. Follow amateur sleuth Kate Fansler in this gripping murder mystery series, continuing with The Question of Max and No Word From Winifred.

The Theban Mysteries

Amanda Cross musters up an ingenious solution to an impossible scenario in this penetrating literary mystery, The James Joyce Murder. On the famous Joycean day of June 16th, Kate Fansler attends the annual Bloomsday celebration, kicking off the start to an idyllic and literary summer. But in the company of an exuberant young nephew and two graduate students, there is not much time for peace and quiet. The idyll is further shattered when an unpleasant next-door neighbour is found murdered. Although the murder appears to have no connection to the day's celebrations, no one can shake the suspicion that James Joyce is somehow linked, not even unliterary police inspector Stratton. Kate is determined to find the solution to this extraordinary murder, even if she finds the culprit in her own home .

The James Joyce Murder

Janet Harrison a été assassinée dans le cabinet du psychanalyste Emanuel Bauer, qu'elle voyait depuis 7 semaines. Elle a été poignardée avec un couteau provenant de la cuisine de Bauer. La police peut-elle imaginer un seul instant un psychanalyste capable de tuer une patiente sur son propre divan ? C'est une question que se pose Kate Fansler.C'est une question d'autant plus pertinente que c'est elle qui a adressé Janet , une de ses étudiantes, à son ami Bauer.

En dernière analyse

Amanda Cross captivates us with strong women and astounding adventure in this gripping mystery, No Word From Winifred. Literature Professor Kate Fansler is asked once again to turn her talents to private investigation when Winifred Ashby - honorary niece of Oxford scholar and novelist Charlotte Stanton - inexplicably disappears from her quiet farmhand life. Using Winifred's journal and Charlotte's novels as her only available sources, Kate must follow a convoluted trail through Oxford to Santa Cruz before finally untangling the secrets of Winifred's past. But Kate's investigation reveals far more than she anticipated as sinister issues of illegitimacy and inheritance arise .

No Word From Winifred

Amanda Cross probes into the shadowy past of Cecily Hutchings and her Bloomsbury-like literary circle in The Question of Max, a gripping whodunit from start to end. Once again, Kate Fansler tries to take a break from her full time career as a literature professor and amateur sleuth. She finds refuge in a rural retreat - the last place she thought her friend Max would come to visit. When he asks to be driven to the home of a recently deceased family friend Kate can't resist the opportunity to learn more about of one of her literary heroes, Cecily Hutchins. But what starts as a light-hearted trip to the coast of Maine, ends with Kate discovering a body on the rocky shore. A body of one of her students. Kate takes it upon herself to find out what really happened. Can her own presence at the scene just be a coincidence? And how much can she really trust Max?Follow amateur sleuth Kate Fansler in this gripping murder mystery series, continuing with No Word From Winifred and A Trap for Fools.

The Question of Max

When Janet Harrison asks her English Professor Kate Fansler to recommend a psychoanalyst, no one could have imagined that Janet's body would be discovered on his couch two months later. Kate can't believe that her old friend Emanuel Bauer could be a murderer, even though Janet was killed in his office using a knife from his kitchen. With help from a team of close companions she sets out to discover the truth, something the police seem happy to ignore. Could the killer be the advertising executive who had his appointment before Janet? Or the lecturer who attends the appointment afterwards? And what about the handsome doctor in the office across the hall?Amanda Cross's tense, taut mystery In the Last Analysis will keep you enthralled and on the edge of your seat until the very last page.'Amanda Cross delighted readers with Kate Fansler .

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