Virginia Vanderlyn, infamously adulterous wife of an archaeology professor, is found buried beneath the cellar floorboards of her Clare College home. The murder compels Professors Antigone and Hiawatha Musing to investigate, using their complementary gifts for reason and intuition in this sumptuously atmospheric mystery. Grave Circle seduces readers with alluring settings, poignantly human characters, and a stunning resolution.
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Articulate prose ... humor, learned allusion, and quaint description. A delight for readers who love language and fans of academic mysteries. -- Library Journal (August 2003)
delightful.fascinating., Grave Circle summons the strange and satisfying feeling that something much more is afoot here than the 'game'. -- Bookpage (September 2003)
for ".those who always wondered just what Jane Austen would be writing if she were alive today.." Grave Circle -- the New Mystery Reader (July 2003)
delightful.fascinating., Grave Circle summons the strange and satisfying feeling that something much more is afoot here than the 'game'. -- Bookpage (September 2003)
for ".those who always wondered just what Jane Austen would be writing if she were alive today.." Grave Circle -- the New Mystery Reader (July 2003)
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Dotted with a remarkable cast of characters,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Grave Circle: An Ivory Tower Mystery (Ivory Tower Mysteries) (Hardcover)
Grave Circle by David D. Nolta is an "Ivory Tower Mystery" featuring Hiawatha Musing and Antigone Musing, two perceptive, eccentric, and sibling college professors who apply their mutually complementary gifts of reason and intuition to solve a quite puzzling murder mystery. Set in a simple college town in Massachusetts, Virginia Vanderlyn was an infamously adulterous wife who turns up dead. Its falls to "Hi" and "Tig" to ferret out the deviously ruthless killer amidst the victim's many rivals and enemies. A superbly crafted novel of hidden secrets and bloodthirsty vendettas cloaked in the veil of academia and dotted with a remarkable cast of characters, Grave Circle showcases David Nolta as a literary master of the Mystery/Suspense genre and will leave readers looking eagerly toward their next encounter with these unique and memorable sibling professorial sleuths!
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Old Bones - New Mystery,
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This review is from: Grave Circle: An Ivory Tower Mystery (Ivory Tower Mysteries) (Hardcover)
If you like a slow & erudite read, explaining the nooks & crannies of professorial minds, & drawing elegant portraits of ivy-covered minor colleges, GRAVE CIRCLE is going to appeal to you...a lot. It has ambience, a little humor, a lot of narrative &, eventually, a mystery.
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Don't Know What Books Jessica Was Reading,
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This review is from: Grave Circle: An Ivory Tower Mystery (Ivory Tower Mysteries) (Hardcover)
I just finished this book, and admittedly, I wish I had read it before I read Nolta's second book, Lostlindens although I was able to enjoy both. Both are very easy reads and provide a great balance of mystery and humor. Having attended Yale, Grave Circle is an especially good read since it is obvious many of the places in the book were inspired by Yale. With all due respect, I am not sure what books the previous reviewer read and I am certainly not sure what her motivation is.
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