Too Many Clues

<p>As chief spokesperson for St. Benignus University in small-town Erin Ohio Jeff Cody’s job responsibilities include handling “crisis communications.” And a crisis it is when veteran journalist Maggie Barton calls Jeff on the day after Thanksgiving. She wants the whole story about a dean forced to step down because of complaints of inappropriate behavior from three women who worked for him.</p><p>But that’s just the overture to double murder at SBU taxing the abilities of larger-than-life amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe and the police agencies of both town and gown. There are clues aplenty – too many in fact. But how could the killer have entered the scene of the first murder without showing up on surveillance video? It seems like magic or a locked room murder in a novel. Fortunately Mac is a magician of no small ability as well as a mystery writer.</p><p>This ninth novel (and tenth book) of the McCabe-Cody series marks the debut of Aurelia Banfield the disarming new assistant chief of St. Benignus University Police and a farewell to two characters who have been part of the Erin scene from the beginning.</p>