I am currently reading a favored (by me :-) ) genre: the good 'ol murder mystery. Lisa Scottoline is the current author to entertain and keep busy my curious mind (so...who really killed that jail security guard???). "Daddy's Girl" is her newest book that is in paperback (easy to travel with). The two main protagonists are college professors: one male; one female. and I do believe we have a love affair brewing with 'dem two ;-)
and, so far, we have 2 main venues: the college classroom and then, the local prison, where our 2 college professors were teaching a class to inmates the day a "disturbance" (the spin put on it by those who run the prison, but a.k.a. a "riot") broke out and one of the security guards was murdered. I am half way thru this and it is good but not her best: "Mistaken Identity" and "Dead Ringer" were two I liked even more.
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Now, I would love to know what kind of class these two professors were teaching to inmates and how did they even end up doing that? Sounds interesting! I would like to know who killed that security guard, too!
-kasey
They are both law professors, with 2 very different approaches. The man, Angus, known as the "Faculty Freak" merely because of his long hair, pony tail and very liberal views, has the most popular classes on campus. His main passion is teaching and conducting clinics that teach his law students "to work as lawyers for the public good while avoiding the abstract legal issues..."
The woman, Nat, loves the letter of the law but has the some of the lowest attendance for her classes until:
1. In trying to figure out how to get her students to participate rather than be on their laptops on sex.com while she is teaching *lol*, she gets a little creative and roleplays Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice to illustrate how the law and justice relate. This ups her positive chatter quotient amongst the students.
As does...
2. She and Angus getting caught up in a prison riot where 3 people were murdered including one security guard whom Nat tried to save with CPR.
The twist is that half way thru the book, Nat becomes the main suspect in that security guard's murder. Who really done it ;-) ? Who is putting the blame --and why-- on Nat?? I dont' know yet, but I'm willing to bet $$$ that Angus goes on the lamb with Nat until they figure it all out.
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