Plot

A professor and ex-cop challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of campus muggings.

Jessica agrees to teach at Manhattan University's criminology program for both students and crime fighting professionals, whose skepticism she soon overcomes. Her course predecessor, ex-cop Wallace Evans, challenges her to solve the campus' muggings as a workshop on a competitive base. When she refuses, he discloses that she was only asked to take his class as a recruiting stunt. Despite being stalked by Luke Phillips, after throwing him out of her class, Jessica starts snooping and becomes a shooting target herself as part of an elaborate display of crazy clues.—KGF Vissers

Jessica starts teaching a course in criminology at Manhattan University. It's the first time they've invited a mystery writer to give a course and most of her students are police officers. Most of their instructors are also cops or ex-cops, like Wallace Evans, who previously gave the course Jessica is now teaching. There have been a rash of muggings on campus and the latest victim is one of her students, Roslyn. Jessica and Evans don't get along and when he challenges her to a contest to identify the mugger, she turns him down flat. The mugger strikes again only this time, someone is killed. She soon realizes that she knows who the killer must be.—garykmcd