Guest post and #Giveaway: What to read after you've read all the contemporary campus cozies

As a cozy fan who works in academia, I love to read (and write) cozy mysteries that take place on college campuses or feature sleuthing professors. While there are some great contemporary campus cozies, there aren’t, nearly enough. Campus cozies are greatly outnumbered by cat, culinary, and craft subgenres.But if you’re willing to broaden your horizons a little, you can find a great read that skewers Machiavellian administrators, Byzantine bureaucracy, pompous professors, and slacker students.Here are five of my favorites. The publication date or genre might place them outside of the contemporary cozy category, but consider giving them a place in your library. As in your favorite cozies, sex and violence take place offstage; entertaining characters, rich settings, and compelling stories are front and center.Read more: Guest Post/Virtual Tour with Giveaway ~ The Black Thumb by Frankie Bow