“The book was among my summer reading and I enjoyed it thoroughly….Marindale is a cantankerous, but adept, teacher whose students confide in him and trust him. This is the third book in the Martindale series and the most campus-oriented. Lovell describes the story as a “soft-boiled/academic” mystery….”
—Gaye Brown de Alvarez, Gallup Independent
“Ron Lovell is a retired Oregon State University professor who lives on the Oregon Coast and has used it as the setting for his first two Martindale mysteries….This time, he sends his hero back to campus….When one of his students is murdered, he sets out to find the killer, uncovering scandals and risking his life along the way.”
—Paul Denison, The Register-Guard
“Lovell has a wonderful sense of place. The first two Martindale mysteries made good use of the Oregon Coast. This time, the story is more campus- bound, but it is no less exciting and fast-paced. Martindale looks into a murder that occurred during the taping of commercials for his university, but he also uncovers a football recruiting scandal and an overly amorous campus wife. Lovell’s prose is lean and spare, his characters drawn in swift strokes. His books aren’t literary or involved, they are just plain, old-fashioned fun. And this one is the best of the three so far.
—Dan Hays, Statesman-Journal