When Rosemary Stubbs embarks on her new career as a chaplain at a New England women's college, she quickly finds herself ensnared in a mystery.
She found herself on a circular stair that led down into a great sunken theater, the stair opening onto a concrete catwalk around four huge cylinders that rested on a level four feet below. The heat was intense, and a living, roaring noise surrounded her. ―From Overnight Float"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Rosemary has barely unpacked when the body of Blanche Werner, the Sanderson treasurer, is found floating in the college swimming pool. Blanche's death brings into sharp focus the financial difficulties that have forced the administration to cut department budgets and provoked faculty infighting. Because of Rosemary's business background, she is asked to take a second look at the Sanderson books and balance sheet. Before she can discover why money keeps disappearing from the college's account (particularly the overnight float of the title, earnings that should have made the budget cuts unnecessary), another murder occurs, and Rosemary's own life is threatened. But before the denouement, the real pleasures of this fine debut novel unfold in Rosemary's growing friendships within the college community, her love of the New England landscape, and her reflections on the spiritual concerns of her charges. There are harbingers of romantic relationships to be explored in future books, with an opera-loving police chief and a seductive classics professor already vying for the attractive young widow's attention. Overnight Float is a worthy addition to a subgenre of academic mysteries. If you like Amanda Cross's Kate Fansler, you'll love Clare Munnings's Rosemary Stubbs. --Jane Adams
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