Mystery/Thriller Book Review: Department of Death: A Nick Hoffman Mystery by Lev Raphael. Perseverance, $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-56474-619-1
Bookshop Raphael makes the most of the academic setting of his immensely enjoyable 10th mystery featuring Nick Hoffman, a literature professor at the State University of Michigan (after 2019âs State University of Murder). After reluctantly accepting an administrative position as the interim chair of the English and Creative Writing Department, Nick must deal with petty faculty rivalries and with an associate chair who proposes that students read digital texts instead of printed texts (âDigital reading puts readers in control and defies the patriarchyâ). Late one night, N...
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