Grave Choices

Peggy O'Neill, a campus cop, is making her regular nightly rounds at the University when she discovers that the door of theStudio Arts Building is unlocked. When she investigates, she discovers a dead body and then is knocked over by a man she assumes is the escaping murderer. The victim is professor Russell Bell, of the Art Department. Peggy is able to identify the man who escaped after the police capture him, but a friend of hers tries to convince her that the man is innocent. If this is true, there are many suspects. Bell was a real womanizer and many women and their husbands had reason to kill him. Also there was considerable professional jealousy within the art department. Peggy conducts several interviews, and then it becomes clear to her that she is the next intended victim. "Grave Choices" is a good addition to this well-written series and should be pleasing to mystery fans.

Peggy is the most likable character I've met in a long time. Enjoyable, totally absorbing. Pure, straightforward mystery sure to appeal to those who prefer a puzzle to mindless violence.