Grave Circle

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.

I picked this up on the new book shelf at my local library on a hunch that it might be worth a read. I couldn't put it down. The good professor is a great mystery writer! I loved the characters. PS. I've ordered several copies to give as gifts to friends.

This is a great book! If Jane Austen wrote a mystery, this would be it! Like any good mystery it is a page turner that the reader cannot put down. However, unlike the typical mystery novel, this book is a wonderfully written, well-crafted work of literature. I especially loved the dialogues between Tig and Hi (Antigone and Hiawatha), the story's protagonists. Nolta is especially successful at melding juicy tidbits of life on a small college campus and beautifully written art historical anecdotes into the narrative. I cannot wait for the next book from the Ivory Tower Mystery Series!

I am not generally a mystery reader, but this one may have changed my life!

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!