Katherine Bolger Hyde ist die Autorin der beliebten Reihe „Crime with the Classics“ und mehrerer Kinderbücher. Eine lebenslange Verehrerin der Literatur und Wortspiele, sie hat einen Abschluss in russischer Literatur und ist Chefredakteurin bei Ancient Faith Publishing. Hydes Schreibstil zeichnet sich oft durch seine geschickte Sprachverwendung und fesselnden Erzählungen aus, wobei sie klassische Literatur und die Nuancen des Geschichtenerzählens erforscht. Sie lebt in den Redwood-Wäldern von Santa Cruz County, Kalifornien, und lässt sich von der Ruhe der Natur in ihre kreative Arbeit einfließen.
Retired professor Emily Cavanaugh and her husband, Luke, are spending their honeymoon 5000 miles away as paying guests at Fizhugh Manor in Oxfordshire. But after meeting the manor's dashing young heir, Emily finds herself in the middle of a family drama redolent of Forster's classic novels. Can she pull off her own masterstroke to catch a killer?
Charles was brilliant, charming, and handsome. We got married after a whirlwind romance. Now Charles has gone. Well, he's dead. I found his body in our living room, but I can't remember what happened before he died. I've tried, but I've been having blackouts for months. The police think I killed him, but I didn't . . . did I?
Professor Emily Cavanaugh makes a horrific discovery while writing her book on Dostoevsky in the entertaining fourth Crime with the Classics cozy.Professor Emily Cavanaugh has left Windy Corner behind and is back at Reed College on her sabbatical, determined to finish writing her book on Dostoevsky. She is soon reunited with one of her promising students, Daniel Razumov, as well as familiar faces on the teaching staff - her friend, Marguerite Grenier, her half-brother, Oscar Lansing, the abrasive division chair, Richard McClintock, and the predatory Taylor Curzon. Known for her relentless pursuit of young male students, Taylor now has Daniel firmly in her sights.Emily knows Taylor must be stopped, but as she starts gathering evidence of Daniel's harassment, she has a disturbing flashback, and then makes a gruesome discovery . . . Can Emily catch a dangerous campus killer while also confronting events from her own past?