Olivia Little planned to spend her three week break with a paperback and absolutely no responsibilities. Then Professor William Thompson turns up at her office door, gray in the face, to report that the manuscript he has been writing since before Olivia was hired has vanished from a locked room.
Three hundred forty-two pages. No copies. No backup. Nothing else in the office touched.
Olivia has questions. Who leaves a cigar burning on a windowsill and never comes back for it? Why is the screen pushed up on a second floor window? And why does everyone she asks seem to know something they would rather not say out loud?
The answer is hiding somewhere between a rival with an old grudge, a student who runs when she is spotted, and the one building on campus nobody should be walking into alone.
A short, warm cozy mystery set at Spencer University in Picklewood, Ohio.
Laina Turner writes clean, cozy mysteries that always have a bit of humor. When she’s not writing she’s a college professor teaching business and English.
Through all her career choices, she has continued to have a passion for writing stemming from childhood, where, as an only child, she developed a vivid imagination. It was during that childhood that she devoured anything Scooby Doo and Trixie Belden, and a love of the cozy mystery was born.
In her spare time, she’s also the personal assistant to her daughter, who’s involved in many sporting activities, while she tries to convince her husband that no, 3 dogs and 1 cat is not ‘too much.’
She is proud of her varied experiences in life from barrel racing, to being on the dance team for a semi-pro basketball team, to being a mom of 2 amazing kids.