Book Description:

Fifteen years earlier: Jasper College is buzzing with the news that famed literature professor Richard Aldiss will be teaching a special night class called Unraveling a Literary Mystery—from a video feed in his prison cell. In 1982, Aldiss was convicted of the murders of two female grad students; the women were killed with axe blows and their bodies decorated with the novels of notoriously reclusive author Paul Fallows. Present day: Harvard professor Alex Shipley made her name as a member of Aldiss’s night class. She not only exposed the truth of Paul Fallows’s identity, but in the process uncovered information that acquitted Aldiss of the heinous 1982 crimes. But when one of her fellow night class alums is murdered— the body chopped up with an axe and surrounded by Fallows novels—can she use what she knows about Fallows to stop a killer before each of her former classmates is picked off, one by one?

Author Biography:

Will Lavender is the author of the novels DOMINANCE and OBEDIENCE, which was translated into fourteen languages and was a New York Times and international bestseller. His novels have been called "puzzle thrillers"--books that have the velocity of thrillers with the twist endings of mystery novels. A former professor of English and writing, Will is a graduate of Centre College. In 2002, he received his MFA in creative writing from Bard College. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky and is at work on his third novel, THE DESCARTES CIRCLE.