The Square Root Of Murder by Ada Madison

Cover Illustration
by Lisa French
Cover Design
by Lesley Worrell

A Berkley Prime Crime Mystery
A Division of Penguin Book Group


A BRAND NEW SERIES
A Professor Sophie Knowles Mystery
Release Date: July 5, 2011
ISBN-10: 0425242196
ISBN-13: 978-0425242193

Henley College in Massachusetts is quite a place and Dr. Sophie Knowles teaches math there.  She also makes math puzzles and brain teasers for several publications. Her students love her. She also has a hunky boyfriend who is a helicopter pilot for a medical evacuation and transfer group, MAstar.

A tradition at the Math/Sciences Building, Benjamin Franklin Hall, is to celebrate birthdays of famous scholars with the students. Something terrible happens at the latest party that changes everything for several party attendees.  Dr. Keith Appleton, without a doubt the most disliked member of faculty at Henley, is found dead in his office.

All the evidence points to Sophie's assistant Rachel, as the prime suspect, for several reasons including the fact that he refused to recommend her for medical school.  Sophie knows there is absolutely no possibility or probability that Rachel could have killed the professor.  Sophie decides to do a little investigating of her own trying to factor out just who the actual killer is, while being careful not to get herself subtracted completely out of the equation.   

This is a wonderful debut to a really smart new series.  The setting is intriguing, the plot complex but not over the top and the characters span the gambit.  These are characters that I am sure to fall in love with as the series continues.  

Ada Madison knows her subject matter very well. She has a Ph. D. in a Physics and a BA in Mathematics.  She is also a fantastic storyteller so even those of us who did not excel in math or science still feel at home with this story.  She has published other series, under different aliases and her Web Page tells you all about them, plus even has puzzles too.

This is my first experience with this author but will be working some of her other works into my reading schedule.  I also will be anxiously awaiting the next edition to the Professor Sophie Knowles Mysteries.  They are off to a marvelous start.

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