The George Eliot Murders A Beth Austin Mystery

by Edith Skom

Amateur sleuth Professor Beth Austin, whose debut in "The Mark Twain Murders" earned rave reviews and numerous mystery award nominations, returns for a splendid second outing. A dress designer falls to her death in the hotel lobby. A murdered body is found on the hotel's jogging trail. Not what Professor Beth Austin expected when she left Midwestern's icy February campus for a sabbatical at the Royal Aloha hotel to prepare a seminar on George Eliot's "Middlemarch." The fun ends when murder begins. To solve the crimes, Beth teams up with a retired lawyer and a famous writer. Then a third body turns up, and immediately after, a fierce storm closes off the Royal from the outside world, trapping panicked guests inside with an unknown killer. Beth's budding romance with the writer takes a backseat as the tension escalates while she pursues the truth...and becomes a target for murder. "This one fairly jumps into your bookbag."-- "The New York Times Book Review" "In Skom, I suspect, we have a new star."-- "Chicago Tribune" Edith Skom lives outside Chicago, where she is a lecturer at Northwestern University. "The Mark Twain Murders" was nominated for an Anthony, an Agatha, and a Macavity Award.

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