Good Reads meta-data is 242 pages, rated 5.0 by two litizens.
Genre: krimi.
DNA: Bristol, UK
Verdict: Uphill.
Tagline: Deviants all.
Delightful chapter headings accompanied by epigrams from poetry, song, training manuals and other sources of high and low literature. These are worth the effort to read the book.
Yes, I did find it an effort. Much of it is presented in police interview transcripts – boring. The same person may be interviewed four or five times, and each time states her legal name and address, place of employment….
One of the police officers has hormonal surges that seem, well, adolescent in a trained-up cop.
It has an excellent plot all the same, and I enjoyed the descriptions of the academics, though I did not notice a seminar. The pompous, opinionated, solipsistic, alcoholic, and lecherous are all on parade. I certainly recognised some of them.
I did get muddled up about the presence of high school students. No doubt I blinked when that was explained. But there were a lot of explanations and I skipped many on the assumption they were padding and not blocks in the plot wall.
I hope the author has more to offer.
Read while disporting at the Retreat in Taronga Park Zoo.