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Quieter than Sleep
By: Joanne Dobson , Ren LexandereBook Publisher: Random House
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Reader Review: English professor Karen Pelletier becomes involved in a murder investigation when a colleague (whose unwelcome attentions she had very recently been desperate to avoid) is murdered at a college party. She has the unpleasant experience of finding the body, not to mention being considered a suspect. When the first murder is followed by another only a few days later, it is impossible to avoid the realization that someone in Karen's circle of acquaintances is a murderer. If the murder is related to academic matters, as appears to be likely, Karen may be in a unique position to "help the police with their inquiries". Dobson creates several interesting and believable characters, starting with her narrator. Karen is in some ways both an insider AND an outsider at Enfield. She loves her job, but doesn't take it or the place for granted (and isn't sure she totally fits in). "A fairy tale come true. Who would have believed it? Karen Pelletier (that's PELL-uh-teer, the New England pronunciation, not the more elegant French) from Lowell, Massachusetts. Pregnant and married at eighteen. A mother at nineteen. Divorced and destitute at twenty-one. And now—a professor at Enfield College." During the course of the investigation, she gets to know the somewhat enigmatic Lieutenant Piotrowski, fights an attraction to an unsuitable man, and befriends a young woman, one of her students, who is in a very bad situation. -And- investigates a murder. The mystery kept my interest and I enjoyed the academic setting and the literary research that occupied Karen. My only complaint, if I have to have one, is that some of the characters and relationships are drawn with such a subtle hand that I feel the need for a few more books to expand on and clarify them. I want to know more about Piotrowski and about Karen's early life and relationship with the lover she left behind for the position at Enfield. Still, I recommend QUIETER THAN SLEEP to readers who enjoy a thoughtful mystery with very human characters.
Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts's elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined--and that not even the privileged world of academia is immune to murder....
Professor Karen Pelletier's prime literary passion is poet Emily Dickinson--a passion she shares with her hotshot colleague Randy Astin-Berger. Heir apparent to the head of Enfield's English department, the pompous Randy is the campus Casanova. That is, he was--until he was found strangled with his own flashy necktie.
The last person to see Randy alive--and the first to find him dead--Karen knows she must solve the case before she becomes the prime suspect. But to do that, she must first discover the truth behind Randy's final Dickinsonian discovery--a literary bombshell that may well have been to die for....
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| Title of eBook: Quieter than Sleep | Series: A Karen Pelletier Mystery, , #1 |
| Release Date: 10-14-2009 | |
| Publisher: Bantam |
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Title: Quieter than Sleep December 13, 2010 English professor Karen Pelletier becomes involved in a murder investigation when a colleague (whose unwelcome attentions she had very recently been desperate to avoid) is murdered at a college party. She has the unpleasant experience of finding the body, not to mention being considered a suspect. When the first murder is followed by another only a few days later, it is impossible to avoid the realization that someone in Karen's circle of acquaintances is a murderer. If the murder is related to academic matters, as appears to be likely, Karen may be in a unique position to "help the police with their inquiries".
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thoughtful mystery with very human characters
Reviewer: A reader from Virginia, USA
Dobson creates several interesting and believable characters, starting with her narrator. Karen is in some ways both an insider AND an outsider at Enfield. She loves her job, but doesn't take it or the place for granted (and isn't sure she totally fits in). "A fairy tale come true. Who would have believed it? Karen Pelletier (that's PELL-uh-teer, the New England pronunciation, not the more elegant French) from Lowell, Massachusetts. Pregnant and married at eighteen. A mother at nineteen. Divorced and destitute at twenty-one. And now—a professor at Enfield College."
During the course of the investigation, she gets to know the somewhat enigmatic Lieutenant Piotrowski, fights an attraction to an unsuitable man, and befriends a young woman, one of her students, who is in a very bad situation. -And- investigates a murder. The mystery kept my interest and I enjoyed the academic setting and the literary research that occupied Karen. My only complaint, if I have to have one, is that some of the characters and relationships are drawn with such a subtle hand that I feel the need for a few more books to expand on and clarify them. I want to know more about Piotrowski and about Karen's early life and relationship with the lover she left behind for the position at Enfield. Still, I recommend QUIETER THAN SLEEP to readers who enjoy a thoughtful mystery with very human characters.
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