Professor Sally Good Books

Dr. Sally Good, head of the English and Fine Arts Division of Hughes Community College in Texas, is forced to turn sleuth when the chairman of the Art Department turns up dead and the husband of a student the dead man had been accused of molesting becomes the prime suspect.

Having broken her hard-and-fast rule about dating members of her department, Hughes Community College English professor Sally Good gets some shocking news about fellow teacher and lukewarm romantic interest Jack Neville: he's being questioned for murder. The victim was a much disliked college trustee stabbed with a knife that the wry, self-effacing Jack made himself in one of the adult education courses. Certain that Jack's not a killer, even if he doesn't make her libido do flips -- unlike a certain other person who is strictly off-limits -- Sally probes the dead man's shady personal and professional ethics. Another body pins suspicion on Jack even further, but Sally, using her seasoned skills for nuance and meaning, takes a different interpretation, honing in on a killer trying to hide his dirty secrets in a deadly lesson. This is #2 in a Professor Sally Good Mystery.

Sally Good's husband has been dead for eight years; his remote ancestor, Sarah Good, died on the scaffold in Salem more than four hundred years ago. Yet the president of Sally's college is afraid the story will reflect badly on them. Sally finds his concern ludicrous, but the college is in a very conservative part of Texas - local citizens are trying to have Harry Potter books removed from the library - and an important bond issue for the college is coming up. Then a former faculty member whose departure Sally was instrumental in securing turns up murdered.