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    The Red Queen's Run

    By Bourne Morris

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    A famous journalism dean is found dead at the bottom of a stairwell. Accident or murder? The police suspect members of the faculty who had engaged in fierce quarrels with the dean—distinguished scholars who were known to attack the dean like brutal schoolyard bullies.

    When Meredith "Red" Solaris is appointed interim dean, the faculty suspects are furious.

    Will the beautiful red-haired professor be next? The case detective tries to protect her as he heads the investigation, but incoming threats lead him to believe Red's the next target for death.

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    THE RED QUEEN'S RUN by Bourne Morris - A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you’ll probably like them all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHenery Press
    Release dateDec 9, 2014
    ISBN9781940976587
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    Bourne Morris

    Bourne Morris began writing at Bennington College where she studied under the late poet laureate, Howard Nemerov. After college, she worked at McCall's Magazine and then went to Ogilvy&Mather, New York during the "Mad Men" era. David Ogilvy and his colleagues treated her wonderfully, promoted her several times and then sent her west to become head of their agency in Los Angeles. She had a splendid run in advertising. In 1983, she joined the University of Nevada Reno as a full professor in Journalism where she taught until 2009. She learned about campus politics when she served as chair of the faculty senate. She retired to write mysteries in 2009 after an equally wonderful teaching career.

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    • 4/5
      Teaching is the most joyous profession of all. There are few things more satisfying than watching a group of students engage in debate, change their minds in light of someone's convincing argument, or just finally get it.I am a big fan of Henery Press' cozy mysteries so I was excited to get this one from Netgalley. I am not used to reading books about professors and academics so this was pretty new to me (the murder part wasn't new to me though). I really enjoyed reading from Meredith's (Red) point of view. She was a relatable character and I felt bad for her with all the craziness she had to deal with trying to run the journalism school.The thing that I loved about this book was Red and Joe's relationship. I loved the two of them together and whenever Joe was away couldn't wait for him to come back. I don't feel like their fight was necessary at all. It seriously seemed to come out of nowhere and felt to forced. The two of them really kept my interest fully in this book. I can't wait to see where their relationship goes next. I have to be honest and say that it was really easy for me to figure out who the murderer was early on in the book. The mystery to me was why they did it. That did not lessen my interest in the book mainly because I just loved Red and Joe. I look forward to continuing this series and seeing what happens to Red (and Joe, can't forget about him) next.
    • 4/5
      I received a free copy of this book from the publisher through Netgalley. At first, I was worried that Morris' book might be a bit too pat and superficial. But as I read it, The Red Queen's Run really grew on me and I ended up really enjoying this mystery set in a faculty of journalism. The setting is clever -- painting academia as a world of dedicated people, unfortunately with some of them entrenched in their views and petty grievances. The characters are good, especially the main character Red as she is suddenly thrust into the role of acting dean after the former dean is murdered. And while the story and denouement are not especially original, they are held together by good details, a great setting and engaging characters. I didn't read Morris' bio until the end, when I saw that she recently started writing mysteries after retiring as a journalism prof. Great choice for a late career. She clearly has interesting material to draw on and I would be happy to read the next book...
    • 4/5
      The wilds of academe are tamed by Red, who saves the day for the school of journalism while getting her man. A quick read with a mystery to solve and villains galore.
    • 4/5
      Liked the book. Looking forward to the next two.

      In my case my iPad showed sections of text in all caps. Annoying, looked like someone was shouting. It messes up the flow of reading the story.
    • 3/5
      Quite good, who did it wasn't too terribly obvious. I finished it quickly and would've given it more stars except for a couple very annoying things.
      The main character and her romance just got in my nerves. She was so wishy washy, always scared or nervous and letting people walk all over her. I'm not big feminist but jeez get a backbone! And her romance?.She and her beau get in a fight, he makes a mountain out of a molehill and leaves her, in danger I might add. Then she calls, and calls,and sends him a letter, and goes over to his place and generally begs him to forgive her for some minor thing and he finally admits he overreacted but he still won't come back to her and she still begs for forgiveness. For what?? And then he shows up says get in the car we're going away for the weekend..and she does. Omg. I acted like that once, when I was 17. Then I grew up. There was a lot of story devoted to the romance so it really detracted from the book for me. And her office relationships weren't much different unfortunately.
      And then there was the grand finale. The problem with it was that it in reality it never would've happened. For one thing why the heck was she alone? But even more importantly why not just tell the bad guy or that she wasn't the only one that knew the terrible secret? A bunch if people knew. The police knew. Not a word from our intrepid heroine though. Gah!
      And then the book ends without tying up a couple of.loose ends. What happened to the old guy? Murder or suicide? Heck was the deans murder even a murder or actually an accident?
      So I took away two stars but despite my long rant I liked it a lot. I recommend it. Just be prepared to yell at the heroine a lot.
    • 3/5
      This book was well written. However, the version I read on Scribd has random italicized passages. I think it was in the actual file, because said italicized passages appeared that way on my PC as well as my tablet. This threw off my reading a lil bit.

      Meredith "Red" Solaris is interim dean for a journalism school after the suspicious death of the former dean, her friend Henry. She feels inadequate and not up the job. She also works with a bunch a psychos. You know how in a cozy mystery series you wonder how a town can have so many murderers within it's boundaries? No wondering going on here. 75% of the people working with her seem capable of murder. The other 25% are one drink away. The level of viciousness, sociopathic behavior and bullying surrounding Red is unbelievable. There's plenty of fodder for future books. But I really think Red should just quit.

      The love story in this was well done. The mystery was good. The murderer is identified well before the end, or at least it seemed that way, in a slow buildup to the resolution. And you can identify them pretty early on if you don't allow yourself to be thrown off by the sheer number of psychos Red works with.

      This was an easy read but reading it was more unnerving than enjoyable for me.