The Professor is a thoroughly gripping mystery about power, ambition, and the lengths we will go to in order to succeed.
But is she too close to see the truth? In her relentless pursuit to uncover the mystery behind Ethan\'s death, Marlitt will be forced to confront the power structures ingrained in the classroom against the backdrop of a historic campus and an institution that sometimes fails its most vulnerable members..
And she quickly finds herself in his apartment, having dinner with his roommates, even sleeping in his bed.
Without the credentials to interview suspects or access phone records, she will have to get closer to a victim\'s life than ever before.
When her mother, a Professor at the university and colleague of the accused professor, asks for her help, she finds herself in the impossible position of proving something didn\'t happen.
A former detective turned research assistant, she misses the excitement of her old job, but most of all the friendship of her partner, Teddy.
Marlitt Kaplan never investigated love affairs.
A Title IX investigation is opened, the Professor is suspended, and social media crusaders and trolls alike are out for blood.
Verena Sobek, has been taken in for questioning, and there are rumors his death is the result of a bad romance.
His professor, Dr.
His fatality immediately garners media attention: not because his death reflects the troubling increase of depression and mental health issues among college students, but because the media has caught the whiff of a scandal.
On a spring afternoon in Athens, Georgia, Ethan Haddock is discovered in his apartment, dead, apparently by his own hand. - New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author, Karin Slaughter For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic life: ambition, lies, and obsession.
Pacey and full of tension, this one will stick with you long after THE END.
The Professor is a thoroughly gripping mystery about power, ambition, and the lengths we will go to in order to succeed
