Kate Fansler Books in Order

When a student Kate sends to a trusted psychoanalyst turns up stabbed in his office, the evidence points straight at the doctor. Certain he is innocent, Kate starts digging into the life of a young woman who seemed to belong to no one.

While vacationing in the Berkshires and sorting through Henry James letters, Kate expects a quiet literary retreat. Then a neighbor is murdered, and the genteel circle around her suddenly looks full of suspects.

Student unrest has left Kate's university on edge, and a threatened college within it may not survive the power struggle. When the president turns up dead, Kate and her colleagues are drawn into a bitterly academic murder case.

Kate returns to her old Upper East Side girls' school to teach *Antigone*, only to find hostile notes, wary students, and a building watched by guard dogs. The classical lesson soon starts to echo a very modern nightmare.

Kate accompanies her fussy friend Max to the Maine home of a recently deceased writer, expecting papers and literary gossip. Instead she finds one of her own students dead on the rocks, and the case opens into a maze of secrets.

A newly tenured woman in Harvard's English department finds herself isolated, mocked, and then dead under suspicious circumstances. Kate Fansler steps into the mess and uncovers a case steeped in rivalry, tokenism, and institutional cruelty.

When the resident eccentric of Clare College is found drowned in the campus lake, the death is written off as suicide. Kate is asked to look closer, and what she finds is a tangle of academic manners, old hurts, and uneasy truths.

Winifred, the niece of a famous British novelist, vanishes after agreeing to help with her aunt's biography. Kate follows the trail through letters, family history, and old choices that still have the power to unsettle the present.

Kate agrees to write the biography of Gabrielle Foxx, the quiet widow of a great modernist writer. As she interviews the women tied to the Foxx family, a hidden history of love, influence, and buried truth begins to emerge.

While teaching at Schuyler Law School, Kate meets a secretary who models herself on George Smiley and knows where the bodies are buried, figuratively and perhaps not. Kate's curiosity leads her into a polished institution built on secrecy and male power.

When a Middle Eastern studies professor is found dead beneath his office window, the university asks Kate Fansler to investigate. She soon suspects the administration has its own agenda, and the killer may be uncomfortably close to home.

Reed Amhearst has been kidnapped, and Kate must follow a ransom note while trying to guess who is really behind it. With danger closing in, the case becomes one of her most personal and unsettling.

A widely disliked professor dies from a dose of his own heart medication, and private investigator Woody Woodhaven pulls Kate into the case. What begins in a poisonous English department soon hints at a deeper and more organized threat.

Kate Fansler learns that a stranger may be her real father, and the shock rattles everything she thought she knew about her family. As old secrets surface, the search for truth turns unexpectedly dangerous.