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An Imperfect Spy

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"FASCINATING . . . The dialogue is, as always, elegant and polished."
—Los Angeles Times
While guest-teaching a semester at Schuyler Law School, Kate Fansler gets to know an extraordinary secretary named Harriet, who patterns her life after John le Carré's character George Smiley. Harriet reveals that Schuyler has some serious skeletons swinging in its perfectly appointed closets, including the fate of Schuyler's only tenured female professor and a faculty wife who has killed her husband. As if Kate doesn't have enough to tackle, she is also up against the men who comprise the faculty of Schuyler itself—a thoroughly unapologetic bastion of white male power, mediocrity, and misogyny. Although she has only a few months on campus, Kate refuses to let Schuyler's rigid ideals and insistence on secrecy suppress her indefatigable curiosity—or her obsession with the truth. . . .
"Cross manages to keep this book as lighthearted and witty as any of the Kate Fansler mysteries, while depicting an institution as lethal as any cold war."
—Marilyn French
"A funny, snappish polemic on political correctitude that takes great relish in Kate's sardonic views."
—The New York Times Book Review

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Series: Kate Fansler Mystery Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 27, 2011

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780307802156
  • Release date: July 27, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9780307802156
  • File size: 1870 KB
  • Release date: July 27, 2011

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"FASCINATING . . . The dialogue is, as always, elegant and polished."
—Los Angeles Times
While guest-teaching a semester at Schuyler Law School, Kate Fansler gets to know an extraordinary secretary named Harriet, who patterns her life after John le Carré's character George Smiley. Harriet reveals that Schuyler has some serious skeletons swinging in its perfectly appointed closets, including the fate of Schuyler's only tenured female professor and a faculty wife who has killed her husband. As if Kate doesn't have enough to tackle, she is also up against the men who comprise the faculty of Schuyler itself—a thoroughly unapologetic bastion of white male power, mediocrity, and misogyny. Although she has only a few months on campus, Kate refuses to let Schuyler's rigid ideals and insistence on secrecy suppress her indefatigable curiosity—or her obsession with the truth. . . .
"Cross manages to keep this book as lighthearted and witty as any of the Kate Fansler mysteries, while depicting an institution as lethal as any cold war."
—Marilyn French
"A funny, snappish polemic on political correctitude that takes great relish in Kate's sardonic views."
—The New York Times Book Review

Expand title description text