My second death

By Lydia R. Cooper

Subjects: Women graduate students, Fiction, Murder, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fiction, Investigation

Description: Mickey Brandeis, a brilliant doctoral candidate in medieval literature, lives in her parents' garage and swears too often, but she hasn't killed a man since she was ten. Mickey's carefully created adult existence is upended when she is led to a condemned house where she discovers a mutilated corpse. When she is later asked by a timid student to solve a murder that occurred twenty years earlier, Mickey begins to lose hold on her tenuous connection to reality.