About the Author

Amanda Cross is the pseudonymous author of the bestselling Kate Fansler mysteries, of which Honest Doubt is the thirteenth. As Carolyn G. Heilbrun, she is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University. She has served as president of the Modern Language Association as well as vice president of the Authors Guild. Dr. Heilbrun is also the author of Writing a Woman's Life, Hamlet's Mother and Other Women, The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem, and, most recently, the New York Times Notable Book The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty.

Reviews

"ONE OF CROSS'S BEST BOOKS IN YEARS."
--The Providence Journal

"AS SHOCKING AS IT IS PLAUSIBLE."
--The Washington Post Book World

Fans of the "Kate Fansler" mystery series will be glad to see that the literary sleuth is back, this time as a consultant to private eye Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven, who is investigating the murder of misogynistic Tennyson scholar Charles Hancock. Woody, a down-to-earth, overweight sleuth, is a likable foil to the elegant, erudite Kate. In her 13th installment of the series, Cross (the pseudonym for feminist literary scholar Carolyn Heilbrun) deftly skewers the academic establishment as Woody uncovers the political feuding and literary fanaticism that led to the murder of Professor Hancock. Devotees of the series may be disappointed at Kate's relatively minor role, but they will be amply compensated by the delightful Woody, who tools around New York City on her motorbike solving crimes yet is always poignantly aware of the way other people react to her portly physique. Highly recommended.DJane la Plante, Minot State Univ., ND Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

"ONE OF CROSS'S BEST BOOKS IN YEARS."
--The Providence Journal

"AS SHOCKING AS IT IS PLAUSIBLE."
--The Washington Post Book World