Oink ─ A Food for Thought Mystery

Emily Addams is the last person you’d expect the police to be circling in a poisoning investigation. A professor of women’s studies, a foodie, and a doting mom, Emily has spent her life building a campus community and engaging in peaceful struggles against injustice. But when Peter Elliott, a professor of plant biology at bucolic Arbor State is found comatose in a pig pen clutching a piece of Emily’s corn bread (unmistakable for its goat cheese and caramelized onions) it’s in her direction that the police turn.
Even as she comes under suspicion, Emily and her comrades in women’s, American, and ethnic studies are fighting the administration’s attempt to defund their programs and run their beloved Arbor State more like a corporation than a place of higher learning. Her efforts to save her own skin and to protect the campus community she loves converge as she launches her own investigation to find out who really slipped the professor a piece of piece of cornbread spiked with pesticide—and as always, it is community that helps her solve the crime. In an expression of communal spirit, Oink comes with recipes.