Foiled Again (Sarah Deane Mysteries)
Offstage drama threatens the production of a gender-bending play,Romiette and Julio, at Maine's Bowmouth  College in Borthwick's entertaining 13th academic cozy starring Sarah Deane,  English professor and sometime sleuth (after 2004'sIntensive Scare Unit). While sparks fly among the  talented young cast (two women clobber the arrogant male lead),  interdepartmental politicking escalates between the English department head,  Danton McGraw, and the director of the drama school, Sarah's friend Vera  Pruczak. Miraculously, the production itself goes off without a hitch, but  after the curtain falls Sarah discovers a faculty member critically injured,  and later, a student is found dead. She brushes off police warnings not to get  involved in her quest for the truth. With natural dialogue and lively  characters, the imaginative plot unfolds at a leisurely pace with enough twists  to keep the reader guessing.(Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.