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Nossett Lauren - The Professor A Novel - Hardcover
Nossett Lauren - The Professor A Novel - Hardcover
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Description: The Professor is a thoroughly gripping mystery about power ambition and the lengths we will go to in order to succeed. Pacey and full of tension this one will stick with you long after THE END. New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author Karin Slaughter For fans of Tana French The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic life: ambition lies and obsession. On a spring afternoon in Athens Georgia Ethan Haddock is discovered in his apartment dead apparently by his own hand. His fatality immediately garners media attention: not because his death reflects the troubling increase of depression and mental health issues among college students but because the media has caught the whiff of a scandal. His professor Dr. Verena Sobek has been taken in for questioning and there are rumors his death is the result of a bad romance. A Title IX investigation is opened the professor is suspended and social media crusaders and trolls alike are out for blood. Marlitt Kaplan never investigated love affairs. A former detective turned research assistant she misses the excitement of her old job but most of all the friendship of her partner Teddy. When her mother a professor at the university and colleague of the accused professor asks for her help she finds herself in the impossible position of proving something didn't happen. Without the credentials to interview suspects or access phone records she will have to get closer to a victim's life than ever before. And she quickly finds herself in his apartment having dinner with his roommates even sleeping in his bed. But is she too close to see the truth? In her relentless pursuit to uncover the mystery behind Ethan's death Marlitt will be forced to confront the power structures ingrained in the classroom against the backdrop of a historic campus and an institution that sometimes fails its most vulnerable members.
Title: The Professor A Novel
Author(s): Nossett Lauren
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Barcode: 9781250845351
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/14/2023
Description: The Professor is a thoroughly gripping mystery about power ambition and the lengths we will go to in order to succeed. Pacey and full of tension this one will stick with you long after THE END. New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author Karin Slaughter For fans of Tana French The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic life: ambition lies and obsession. On a spring afternoon in Athens Georgia Ethan Haddock is discovered in his apartment dead apparently by his own hand. His fatality immediately garners media attention: not because his death reflects the troubling increase of depression and mental health issues among college students but because the media has caught the whiff of a scandal. His professor Dr. Verena Sobek has been taken in for questioning and there are rumors his death is the result of a bad romance. A Title IX investigation is opened the professor is suspended and social media crusaders and trolls alike are out for blood. Marlitt Kaplan never investigated love affairs. A former detective turned research assistant she misses the excitement of her old job but most of all the friendship of her partner Teddy. When her mother a professor at the university and colleague of the accused professor asks for her help she finds herself in the impossible position of proving something didn't happen. Without the credentials to interview suspects or access phone records she will have to get closer to a victim's life than ever before. And she quickly finds herself in his apartment having dinner with his roommates even sleeping in his bed. But is she too close to see the truth? In her relentless pursuit to uncover the mystery behind Ethan's death Marlitt will be forced to confront the power structures ingrained in the classroom against the backdrop of a historic campus and an institution that sometimes fails its most vulnerable members.
Title: The Professor A Novel
Author(s): Nossett Lauren
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Barcode: 9781250845351
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/14/2023
