When homicide detective Ian Carter arrives at the scene of a murder, the victim is posed to look like  Ophelia from Hamlet. Not that any of the detectives on the scene realize that...

The person who will crack open that clue, and other twisted literary references, is on the other side of their Oregon college town; English professor Emma Reilly. She’s struggling to get  to class on time, and sensitive about avoiding the “absent minded professor” trope.

It’s the beginning of the new novel “Murder by the Book,” by author Amie Schaumberg… who lives in Spokane and happens to be an English professor herself. The narrative shifts between the perspectives of Detective Carter and Professor Reilly, and as the mystery unfolds, we see the crime through different lenses - Literary, Artistic, and Forensic…

GUEST: Amie Schaumberg

RELATED LINKS: 

• Amie Schaumberg, Author
• Writing Neurodivergence in Crime Fiction
• Murder by the Book – HarperCollins
• Washington author’s debut novel admires and interrogates literature

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