December, 1941: With New Yorkers painfully aware of their vulnerability after the Pearl Harbor attack, the FBI prowls the city snatching up Japanese residents. Tension increases for a sensitive Japanese artist when she’s accused of murder as well as espionage. Is Masako Fumi guilty? Or a victim of racial paranoia? Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged and vows to help her friend.When the murdered body of Masako’s art dealer is discovered in the gallery where he’d been closing down her controversial show, Masako’s troubles multiply. Homicide detective Michael McKenna doubts her guilt, but an ambitious G-man schemes to lever the homicide and ensuing espionage accusations into a political cause célèbre.Struggling to focus on one man’s murder while America plunges into a worldwide war, Louise and McKenna defy both racism and ham-fisted government agents in order to expose the real killer.

English professor Karen Pelletier discovers a photograph in an old book that leads her into a thicket of academic politics and even murder

Professor Karen Pelletier is about to realize her dream; after six years in the English Department at New England’s exclusive Enfield College, she is up for tenure. Then Professor Joseph Lone Wolf, her rival for the one tenured spot in the department, whose ethnicity gives him minority-preference status, is found dead from an overdose of Peyote buttons. First on the list of suspects, Karen is harassed by a homicide cop with a grudge against his colleague, the love of Karen’s life, Lieutenant Charlie Piotrowski. On campus, political passions rage. Two of Karen’s favorite students, Khalida Ahmed, a hijab-wearing Muslim, and Hank Brody, a coal-miner’s son on full scholarship, are caught up in the furor. Without the presence of her beloved Charlie, now serving a tour of duty with the National Guard in Iraq, will Karen be able to survive the investigation, protect her students, and find a permanent niche in the world of academe? And what if the killer feels the need to strike again?

At Enfield College Professor Karen Pelletier hides a visiting author, Sunnye Hardcastle, when invaluable texts are stolen from the library, igniting an investigation headed by her policeman lover.

A long-obscured controversial novel from the 1950s enjoys a brief, tempestuous resurgence when iconoclastic English professor Karen Pelletier names it as one of the greatest books of the century, but Karen soon finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation involving the novel's reclusive author. Reprint.

A long-obscured controversial novel from the 1950s enjoys a brief, tempestuous resurgence when iconoclastic English professor Karen Pelletier names it as one of the greatest books of the century, but Karen soon finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation involving the novel's reclusive author. 12,500 first printing.

Academic politics turn deadly when an argument over papers left by Emmeline Foster, a nineteenth-century poet, seems to result in the death of a sexist Poe scholar. Reprint.

Strangled with his own flashy necktie, Professor Randy Astin-Berger, an expert on Emily Dickinson and a campus Casanova, tumbles into Professor Karen Pelletier's arms, forcing her to solve the crime before she stands accused. Reprint. PW.

Looks at the works of Emily Dickinson in the context of her contemporary women writers