The Professor: A Novel
Written by Lauren Nossett
Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
“The Professor is a thoroughly gripping mystery about power, ambition, and the lengths we will go to in order to succeed. Pacey and full of tension, this one will stick with you long after THE END.” –New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author, Karin Slaughter
For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic life: ambition, lies, and obsession.
On a spring afternoon in Athens, Georgia, Ethan Haddock is discovered in his apartment, dead, apparently by his own hand. His fatality immediately garners media attention: not because his death reflects the troubling increase of depression and mental health issues among college students, but because the media has caught the whiff of a scandal. His professor, Dr. Verena Sobek, has been taken in for questioning, and there are rumors his death is the result of a bad romance. A Title IX investigation is opened, the professor is suspended, and social media crusaders and trolls alike are out for blood.
Marlitt Kaplan never investigated love affairs. A former detective turned research assistant, she misses the excitement of her old job, but most of all the friendship of her partner, Teddy. When her mother, a professor at the university and colleague of the accused professor, asks for her help, she finds herself in the impossible position of proving something didn't happen. Without the credentials to interview suspects or access phone records, she will have to get closer to a victim's life than ever before. And she quickly finds herself in his apartment, having dinner with his roommates, even sleeping in his bed. But is she too close to see the truth?
In her relentless pursuit to uncover the mystery behind Ethan’s death, Marlitt will be forced to confront the power structures ingrained in the classroom against the backdrop of a historic campus and an institution that sometimes fails its most vulnerable members.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
Lauren Nossett
Lauren Nossett is a former professor turned novelist with a PhD in German literature. Her debut, The Resemblance, won the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slow start and never got to the “can’t put it down” point but several unexpected twists.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My advice is to hang in there and stick with the story even though the pacing is slow at the start. I also found it difficult and somewhat annoying that the first person kept switching from character to character. But by the second half of the story I was hooked and couldn't put it down. The final chapters were excellent - brimming with suspense and surprise - more than making up for the slow start and need to adjust to the way the characters switched.