Pursuit and Persuasion

ACADEMIC SLEUTH BEN REESE INVESTIGATES A CASE OF MURDER AMONG FRIENDS.

The sudden death of rich, generous Scottish professor Georgina Fletcher seems like a tragic accident. Indeed, American archivist Ben Reese can scarcely believe that it was not. But Georgina had foreseen her death and had laid down a secret trail of evidence pointing to a hardhearted murder committed by someone with much to gain if she died–or to lose if she lived. Was it the brilliant sculptor Georgina had supported? The beautiful student who is also her heir? Her late husband’s business associates? Or a jealous colleague in her own department? It appears that someone very close to her not only killed with fiendish cleverness but wants to ensnare Ben like a blind rat in a live trap–from which he’ll never escape….