http://www.powells.com/biblio/18-9780375413629-0 - Stephen Carter is an African-American law professor at Yale - so his novels unsurprisingly combine two areas in which I'm very interested - race and the legal/political system. And, he writes thrillers - a triple-whammy. I really enjoyed his first novel The Emperor of Ocean Park, and this new one features more prominently a number of his minor characters from that book. Centered around a college campus, a professor is found murdered. He happens to be the ex-lover of the university president's wife, Julia. Julia suspects that the murder has something to do with her husband's college roommates - all wealthy white men - one now the President of the United States, and the other a Senator and front-runner in the next election. As she chases down one clue after another, she finds herself in a tangled web of lies and deception involving her family and a suspicious murder the people in town thought was resolved decades before. Carter is suspenseful, and he drops enough hints to keep the reader guessing and involved in the story. This one went on about 100 pages too long, but all in all, I found it a worthwhile mystery.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
New England White - Stephen Carter
http://www.powells.com/biblio/18-9780375413629-0 - Stephen Carter is an African-American law professor at Yale - so his novels unsurprisingly combine two areas in which I'm very interested - race and the legal/political system. And, he writes thrillers - a triple-whammy. I really enjoyed his first novel The Emperor of Ocean Park, and this new one features more prominently a number of his minor characters from that book. Centered around a college campus, a professor is found murdered. He happens to be the ex-lover of the university president's wife, Julia. Julia suspects that the murder has something to do with her husband's college roommates - all wealthy white men - one now the President of the United States, and the other a Senator and front-runner in the next election. As she chases down one clue after another, she finds herself in a tangled web of lies and deception involving her family and a suspicious murder the people in town thought was resolved decades before. Carter is suspenseful, and he drops enough hints to keep the reader guessing and involved in the story. This one went on about 100 pages too long, but all in all, I found it a worthwhile mystery.
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