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Gail Bowen, winner of the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for best offense novel for her previous Joanne Kilbourn puzzle, A Colder Sort of Death, is again - with her most daring puzzle to date. Inside the horrifying opening paragraph of A Killing Springtime, Reed Gallagher, the head of the School of Journalism at the school where Joanne Kilbourn demonstrates to, is found lifeless in a seedy rooming house. He's dressed up in women's nighties, with an electric cable around his neck of the guitar. Suicide, the authorities say. A case of accidental suicide. But for Joanne, who assumes the thankless job of breaking the news to Gallagher's better half, this death is just the first in a series of misfortunes that rock her life, both professional and personal. A few days after Gallagher's death, the School of Journalism is vandalized - its office buildings and computer systems are trashed, and homophobic graffiti is sprayed all over the place. Then an unattractive and unpopular journalism student in Joanne's politics category stops coming to institution after complaining to a unbelieving Joanne that she's being sexually harassed. Obviously, all is much less well at the school as Joanne possessed thought. Nor is all well in her love life following the casual racism of an stranger drives a wedge between Joanne and her fan, Inspector Alex Kequahtooway. To create things worse, Joanne is unceremoniously fired by her best friend from the each week political -panel on Nationtv, which she's being doing for a long time. Terribly shaken by these calamities, Joanne battles to carry cheerfully on. Action, she is aware, is better for her than moping. She makes a decision to discover why her student has stopped coming to category, and in doing so, Joanne steps unknowingly into an on-campus world of fear and deceit and murder.