C.S. Laurel B. Quick

B. Quick

C.S. Laurel

Five Star, Dec 2005, $25.95, 315 pp.

ISBN: 1594143803

Twenty-nine year old Bile College English Professor William Shakespeare Yates, heads home in a storm when he nears one lane bridge that leads to the town Lythia Springs, Colorado. Before he can cross it he notices someone drops a bundle that appears to have contained a body off the bridge into the Nugget River. Unable to just keep going home, William dives into the icy waters and rescues student Brian Quick, the star of the professor's late night gay fantasies.

That same night Brian's friend Police Chief Tony Marssano gets a tip that William killed Brian and tossed him off the bridge. However, the live Brian tells Bill that William saved his life and that his roommate Chris Hogg drugged him and tried to kill him. When another student is found dead from an ax, once again Tony looks towards William as the culprit especially as evidence begins to pile up affirming he did it. Alas William must put aside his dreams of a university taboo about bedding a student in order to prove his innocence or else he may end up as the final act in a tragedy.

B. QUICK is a fun tongue in cheek amateur sleuth thriller that contains an intriguing triangle. The story line is driven by the antics of the Professor, whose reward for saving Adonis, is being accused twice as a killer. The interrelationships between William, Brian, and Tony are priceless, as each has preconceptions of the others, that in some ways clouds their judgment. Readers will have fun with this lighthearted Rocky Mountain academic who-done-it.

Harriet Klausner