What if the teacher you hate wound up … murdered? What if you and your slacker friends found his body? What if it became a race against time to find the killer before he found you? If you like your sleuths fierce, funny and female, award-winning author Kelly Oliver has a treat for you. Independent Publisher's Award Winner for Best Mystery/Thriller Foreword Magazine Award Best Mystery Finalist Amazon Bestseller Philosophy student Jessica James just wants to defend her thesis and earn her degree. Instead, she finds her professor dead in a bathtub, her thesis marked for rejection, and leaves enough clues at the murder scene to make her a suspect. Before she can say, 'What doesn't kill you sends you to therapy, ' the mob gets involved and it's up to Jessica and her ragtag posse of friends - Amber the tech-savvy hippie, Jack the wisecracking stoner, and Lolita the seductive poker 'Tsarina' - to catch the killer before Jessica becomes the next victim. Are the murder and Jessica's thesis connected? Why was Jessica's thesis rejection post-dated? And what do two expensive Russian paintings have to do with it? Smart, capable women shine in this gripping murder mystery where Girl Power meets Mobster Grit. A witty and engaging whodunit, with a "cowgirl philosopher" who's part V.I. Warshawski and part John Wayne… fast-paced and thoroughly engaging whodunit. --Kirkus Reviews "Fast paced and full of fascinatin gcharacters...Jessica is a heroine readers will root for." --BookLife Prize for Fiction "Entertaining, fast, and refreshing mix of murder, greed, philosophy, mystery, and woman power....very funny yet profoundly dark."-- Foreword Magazine Nobody tops Kelly Oliver for delivering fast-paced narrative, quirky characters, and a plot as twisty as a bucking bronco--all of this leavened with Oliver's trademark wry humor. --Caroline Taylor, author of Loose Ends and The Typist Mystery, Suspense, Action, Adventure, Romance, and Laugh-out-Loud Hu