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Lauren Adler
Death of a Radcliffe Roommate
A Harvard student from New Jersey investigates her roommate's mysterious death.
- GenresMystery
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 1986
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February 15, 2015
One of my favorite books from college, don't know why just a fun read!!
March 9, 2021
"When spring comes to Harvard, Lauren Adler's thoughts turn to choosing a roommate. Her first choice is Emily Ravello, daughter of a Washington politician. But Emily already shares a suite with four impossible roommates, including a harpist whose playing is heavenly, but whose hellish personality makes everybody itch to strangle her. And, one night, someone does.
"Snuggled in the back row of a boring International Relations course, Lauren compares notes on whodunit with her best friend, preppie Michael Hunt. The deduction is more upsetting than the food in the Freshman Union. The killer must be one of the remaining roommates. But who? The absolutely awesome Cookie, a Valley girl with a vicious streak? The Princess, a Sheik's daughter as mysterious as the bodyguard at her side? Helena, a poet jealously devoted to an ageing literary lion? Or even ... Emily? Four femmes fatales. Four suspects to put Lauren and Michael on the trail of a Cliffie who went over the edge -- to murder."
I reallly enjoyed this book, as much for the terrific portrayal of freshman life at university -- away from home for the first time, and at last! There's not a lot of action about the murder, although Lauren does solve it in the end. The interactions between all the characters was so accurate, it was as though all the years had fallen away and I was back there again -- a freshman away from home for the first time. And oh! the freedom!
"Snuggled in the back row of a boring International Relations course, Lauren compares notes on whodunit with her best friend, preppie Michael Hunt. The deduction is more upsetting than the food in the Freshman Union. The killer must be one of the remaining roommates. But who? The absolutely awesome Cookie, a Valley girl with a vicious streak? The Princess, a Sheik's daughter as mysterious as the bodyguard at her side? Helena, a poet jealously devoted to an ageing literary lion? Or even ... Emily? Four femmes fatales. Four suspects to put Lauren and Michael on the trail of a Cliffie who went over the edge -- to murder."
I reallly enjoyed this book, as much for the terrific portrayal of freshman life at university -- away from home for the first time, and at last! There's not a lot of action about the murder, although Lauren does solve it in the end. The interactions between all the characters was so accurate, it was as though all the years had fallen away and I was back there again -- a freshman away from home for the first time. And oh! the freedom!
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