Lauren Nossett Books in Order

Lauren Nossett examines the ideal of the chaste maternal woman in German literature and film. Tracing works from the eighteenth century through Metropolis, she explores how contradictory expectations of women served changing social and political purposes.

Eleven essays examine how German women writers developed ideas of authorship in the expanding eighteenth-century literary marketplace. Letters, creative works and intellectual networks reveal how they negotiated opportunity, restriction and community while shaping their own artistic identities.

A student dies in a hit-and-run at the University of Georgia, and witnesses insist the driver looked exactly like him. Detective Marlitt Kaplan’s investigation into fraternity life exposes powerful loyalties and secrets that intersect with her own past.

After a student dies and his professor faces accusations of an affair, former detective Marlitt Kaplan is asked to help. Immersing herself in the young man’s life, she must disentangle rumor, ambition and institutional power to uncover the truth.

Private detective Kelly investigates threats against a rising Nashville musician, only for the singer to be shot onstage and vanish with her ambulance. The search draws Kelly into dangerous secrets about fame, ambition and the musician’s past.