num_pages: 306
description: Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts's elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined--and that not even the privileged world of academia is immune to murder....Professor Karen Pelletier's prime literary passion is poet Emily Dickinson--a passion she shares with her hotshot colleague Randy Astin-Berger. Heir apparent to the head of Enfield's English department, the pompous Randy is the campus Casanova. That is, he was--until he was found strangled with his own flashy necktie.The last person to see Randy alive--and the first to find him dead--Karen knows she must solve the case before she becomes the prime suspect. But to do that, she must first discover the truth behind Randy's final Dickinsonian discovery--a literary bombshell that may well have been to die for....
language: English
title: Quieter than Sleep
titlecomplete: Quieter than Sleep (A Karen Pelletier Mystery, #1)
characters: Karen Pelletier
genres: Academia, American, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Murder Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 532
places: Enfield, Massachusetts
series: A Karen Pelletier Mystery
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Bantam