Hooded Murder

"Jessie Batelle can't believe her luck when she is offered the position of Women's Studies Director at Burford College, a private liberal arts school in the Midwest. Fresh from writing her dissertation on feminist communities in academia, Jessie is ecstatic at the possibility of living and working in a supportive, women-centered environment. What she finds instead is a fraternity-dominated atmosphere where pornographic flyers and graffiti are considered harmless pranks, and where the lesbian faculty is less than supportive. When Professor Joyce Barnette (nicknamed "the lesbian vampire") is found dead in a staged accident, a colleague hints that she knows who did it, and sets up a secret meeting with Jessie. But before Jessie arrives, the woman also suffers a deadly "accident." When the official investigation proves fruitless, Jessie decides to do a little sleuthing on her own. But the solution is much closer to home than Jessie realizes -- and she has unwittingly triggered the pitiless rage that will compel the murderer to kill again..." -- Publisher's description.