Schooled in Murder is the first book in a new campus cozy mystery series by prolific and bookish author Victoria Gilbert. Due out 7th Jan 2025 from Crooked Lane Books, it's 272 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links.
This is exactly as advertized; a cozy, readably enjoyable, and engaging light campus mystery with an appealing mystery writer and adjunct college writing mentor in the role of amateur sleuth, an appallingly awful loudmouth professor of literature whom everyone loathed in the role of first (unlamented) corpse, and a nice ensemble cast of character who range from appealing and unjustly accused to fun-to-hate.
It's a cozy, so the actual violence isn't terribly graphic (there are descriptions of blood, but they're fleeting) and the language is squeaky clean and there's a romance subplot, but it's not overpowering.
Four stars. Solidly readable for cozy fans. Publishing info for the second volume in the series isn't out yet, but the author is dependably regular in her output. This would make a good choice for public library acquisition, home use, and possibly a buddy read.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
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