A student's suspicious death turns a librarian's research skills into a deadly investigation.
Diana Foster thought spring semester at Moonridge College would bring renewed energy and academic focus. But when promising student Rebecca Edgerton is found dead in her dorm room just hours after asking Diana for research help, the head librarian's quiet world is shattered once again.
Rebecca's death appears to be a tragic suicide?until medical examiner Dr. Helen Roberts discovers evidence of a sophisticated murder designed to silence the young woman's investigation into campus mental health services. Partnering with Detective Scott Erickson, Diana uncovers a web of research ethics violations, student exploitation, and institutional corruption that reaches deep into the college's faculty.
As Diana and her student assistant Emma decode Rebecca's encrypted files, they realize the murdered student had discovered a systematic scheme to profit from vulnerable students' most private struggles. Someone was willing to kill to protect lucrative research built on stolen therapy sessions and violated trust.
But exposing the truth puts Diana and her team directly in the crosshairs of desperate faculty members who've already committed murder once. In a community where academic careers matter more than student lives, seeking justice for Rebecca could make Diana the next victim.
The second installment in the Moonridge Library Mysteries proves that some secrets are worth killing for?and that librarians will risk everything to ensure the truth isn't buried with the evidence.
