The Caravaggio Books — Bernard Peterson

DEATH BY DEGREES

Steeped in prominence and tradition, Kingsford University offers academic excellence for those fortunate enough to be accepted into its hallowed halls. Unfortunately, one among them is a killer.

Art professor Hilda Robertson is stabbed to death in a locked carrel in the high-security university library. Detective Philip Constanza suspects that only someone in the tightly knit campus community could have plotted, schemed and ultimately committed the crime.

A retired professor of English is the next victim, a desperate act by an increasingly desperate killer, one that leads the Kingsford police to a murderer whose motive is most chillingly academic.