Death by Dissertation

Cassandra Sato left Hawaii for her dream job. Nebraska handed her a corpse instead.

Morton College has a body problem, and it isn't the freshman fifteen.

Her leap from tropical paradise to small-town Nebraska was supposed to be a career move, not a detour into danger. At Morton College, the secrets pile up faster than the leaves.

The sudden death of a deaf student thrusts her into an investigation denser than the Nebraska cornfields. Cassandra finds herself untangling a web of campus intrigue that threatens to derail her career—and possibly her life.

Academic chaos reigns. Lance Erickson, a deaf work-study student with secrets of his own, becomes an unlikely ally. Add a sheriff with too many questions, a relentless reporter, a boss who prefers problems stay buried, and a stalker who thinks he's Zorro. No one said college was easy.

Each clue pulls her deeper into danger and greases the rungs of the academic ladder she's precariously climbing. Can she uncover the truth before she becomes the next unfortunate headline?

Read the first in this smart, clean, and quirky mystery series, where murder meets academia.