The Bookroom Murders

The police shooting of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown again raises the situation of racial unrest in America. My novel The Bookroom Murders depicts racial confrontation in an inner city high school where police use excessive force to deal with the situation and students are shot and mauled by dogs. AlsoThe Bookroom Murders is not your typical mystery. It is a coming of age story involving a battle of the sexes and an odyssey of self-realization. The teacher narrator is intelligent quirky self-deprecating and irreverent. The story has elements of a teacher's worst nightmare. And this is not the typical teacher-against-the-odds victory cliche'. Instead it is violent ironic darkly humorous sexually explicit and bizarre. The story is multi-ethnic with strong female characters--Chinese Latina and Italian--as well as a sexist teacher who is not a paragon and happens to be a murder suspect.