TOWN AND GOWN 
Stories set in college towns or on campus

MYSTERIES
Belfort, Sophie The Marvell College Murders
Borthwick, J.S.  from The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites (1982) to Coup de Grāce (2000)(The Sarah Deane & Alex McKenzie series)
Bowen, Gail  from A Killing Spring (1996) to Burying Ariel (2000) (political science professor Joanne Kilbourn series)
Cross, Amanda  from In the Last Analysis (1964) to Honest Doubt (2001) (English professor Kate Fansler series)
Holtzer, Susan  from Something to Kill For (1994) to Better Than Sex (2001) (Anneke Haagen, computer consultant, series)
Kenney, Susan  from Garden of Malice (1983) to One Fell Sloop (1990) (English Professor Roz Howard)
Raphael, Lev  from Let's Get Criminal (1996) to Little Miss Evil (2000) (gay professor Nick Hoffman series)
Thomas-Graham, Pamela  from A Darker Shade of Crimson (1998) to Blue Blood (1999)(African-American professor Nikki Chase series)

 

OTHER FICTION
Amis, Kingsley Lucky Jim
Argiri, Laura The God in Flight
Blumenthal, Michael Weinstock Among the Dying
Byatt, A.S. Possession: a romance
Davies, Robertson The Lyre of Orpheus
Galbraith, John Kenneth The Tenured Professor
Harvard, Jane The Student Body
Hassler, Jon The Dean's List; Rookery Blues
Jaffe, Rona Class Reunion
McCarthy, Mary Birds of America
Nabokov, Vladimir Pnin
Pym, Barbara An Academic Question
Reed, Ishmael Japanese by Spring
Roth, Philip The Human Stain; Letting Go
Smiley, Jane Moo: a novel
Snow, C.P. The Masters; The Sleep of Reason


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Last Updated: January 26, 2012