{"product_id":"murder-by-the-book","title":"Murder by the Book","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eTwo dead students. A coded reference to Shakespeare. And the promise of darker things to come.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNear a small college campus, a student is found strangled in an abandoned barn on the outskirts of town. She's been posed to look like a painting of Ophelia from Shakespeare's \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e, the scene taunting the police with a message they don't understand. Detective Ian Carter is known as a straitlaced cop, but seeing the girl's body leaves him shaken and uncertain of where to turn--until a chance meeting with a charmingly awkward literature professor ends with her accidentally seeing, and solving, a clue left by the killer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Emma Reilly knows that the books she loves might hold the key to unraveling the killer's crimes now that a second murder has been discovered, with the victim posed as the Lady of Shalott this time. However, when the murderer strikes too close to home and kills a third student, one from Emma's classes, she realizes that the safety of her insular life might be nothing more than an illusion. She must find the strength to confront a killer who is turning the stories she loves into lurid scenes of death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmie Schaumberg has crafted a smart, thrilling and utterly compelling mystery that will have you trying to figure out whodunit right up until the end.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 077838750X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780778387503\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Schaumberg, Amie, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Mira Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mira Books","offers":[{"title":"HardCover (Aug 2025)","offer_id":45659652718789,"sku":"9780778387503","price":28.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780778387503.jpg?v=1768913234","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/murder-by-the-book","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}