Dr. Rowena Halley is a Professor of Russian Language and an accidental sleuth. She is also a realistic modern academic. No spacious wood-paneled offices for her…try underpaid term contracts with no health insurance, depressing low-budget apartments, and copier codes (good for 100 copies per month) that don’t start working until the semester is well underway. Author Sid Stark skewers academia as only an insider can.
Foreign Exchange
In post-Soviet Russia, crime fights you.
CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL
Dr. Rowena Halley has, against all odds, gotten a job. For one semester. At poverty wages. In New Jersey.
PERMANENT POSITION
Loves hurts. Sometimes it kills.
Summer Session
Sometimes summer flings turn deadly serious.
Trigger Warning
When does freedom go too far?
Audio enthusiasts: You can listen to select Rowena Halley stories for free right now. Stark has a YouTube playlist, which you can find here. You can catch the podcast on SoundCloud, Apple, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and TuneIn. I’m currently listening to Foreign Exchange, the series prequel, and loving it.
Is this a cozy series? Decide for yourself: There is a female amateur sleuth, a close campus community, a feline companion, and wry humor. But the series does contain some swearing, much of it from Rowena’s older brother John, a Marine whose world view is often at odds with his little sister’s.
Happy Aloha Friday…download and enjoy!
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