A review by luckyyjana
Death in a Tenured Position by Amanda Cross

challenging funny mysterious slow-paced

4.0

the mystery itself was lackluster but my god did I enjoy the character interactions in this book. cross/heilbrun teaches a masterclass in dialogue writing; her characters are endearing in their eccentricity, full of debonair charm and arrestingly witty! through the perspective of a (2nd wave) feminist fully aware of her position as a "token woman" in academia, institutions of higher learning come under fire for their hostility towards women (at worst) or their performative commitment to diversity (at best) -- painfully relevant almost 60 years later.