Schooled in Murder (Campus Sleuth Mysteries Book # 1) by Victoria Gilbert

A mystery writer must solve a real murder case before an innocent girl is condemned-in this series debut from acclaimed author Victoria Gilbert.

Jennifer ‘Jenn’ Dalton is an author and educator at Clarion University in Virginia. She loves her job, but some of her petty coworkers look down on her for writing genre fiction. As members of the English department, they wish to encourage students to pursue higher literary aspirations. When a humiliating confrontation between an uppity professor and one of Jenn’s students, Mia, escalates, no one thinks much of it. Until his dead body is found along with evidence incriminating Mia.

Jenn knows Mia couldn’t have killed him, but Mia’s suspicious disappearance might as well be a proclamation of guilt. With the sleuthing skills Jenn has acquired writing murder mysteries, she’s determined to solve the case and clear Mia’s name.

Along with the help of her fellow sleuthers, Christine Kubiak, a cafeteria manager, Zachary Flynn, the charming but annoying campus psychologist, and Brianna Rowley, a librarian, Jenn must catch the real killer before there’s another murder on the books.  (Summary via Goodreads)

Schooled in Murder is the first book in the Campus Sleuth Mystery series written by Victoria Gilbert and you are going to LOVE it !!!  

In Schooled in Murder the main character Jenn Dalton is a mystery author herself as well as having a full time job running the writing center at Clarion University.  She is very busy in her normal every day dealings but when she comes across a dead body in the library and one of the students that she is helping is the main suspect, she finds the time to look into the death.

Professor Douglas Barth wasn't liked by everyone but to murder him seems a bit much.  So Jenn along with the help of a few friends on campus decide to do their own investigating.  However, even though Jenn is a published author of mystery books, it is nothing like the real thing.  And psychologist Zachary Flynn is right there to tell her that regularly.

Readers will love this debut book and will be looking forward to future books.  You cannot help but love the back and forth between Jenn and Zach and want to see where Gilbert is going to take that storyline.  And the college campus setting is a refreshingly fun setting as well.

I highly recommend grabbing your copy immediately and digging in.  You will thoroughly enjoy it.