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The Case of the Defunct Adjunct

A twisty campus mystery! Professor Kent Lovely is Mahina State University’s resident creep — or he was, until he collapsed face-first into his cheesecake. Now the faculty summer retreat is a crime scene, and Professor Molly Barda must do everything she can to clear her innocent friend Emma’s name… before it’s too late.

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The Musubi Murder

Professor Molly just wants to stay out of trouble until she gets tenure at Mahina State University (“Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow!”). But when the college’s biggest donor, a local lunch-shop tycoon, vanishes, Molly’s dean orders her to find him before his check bounces. Will snooping around and stirring up old secrets land Molly in the soup?

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Trust Fall

It’s another faculty retreat at Mahina State University. Professor Molly struggles to stay awake. Her best friend Dr. Emma Nakamura does her best not to throttle anyone (a particular challenge in the case of newbie know-it-all Kyle Stockhausen). But then the Trust Fall exercise goes horribly wrong. Is it murder? Or just the worst meeting of the semester?

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The Musubi Murder

When local big-shot Jimmy Tanaka, “The Most Hated Man in Hawaii,”  pledges a huge donation to the College of Commerce, Professor Molly thinks her employer’s troubles are over. But then Tanaka disappears, and Molly’s bottom-line-obsessed dean tasks her with locating the missing mogul. As Molly explores ancient grudges and uncovers old scandals, she starts to fall for Tanaka’s competitor, the too-good-to-be-true Donnie Gonsalves. Donnie seems to like her for all the wrong reasons–and has a few secrets of his own.

Excerpt

The Student Retention Office had  come in to refurbish the classroom, but they didn’t repaint it or replace the rotted ceiling tiles or fix the broken blinds. What they did was transform the classroom into a “learning center” by removing all of the desks and installing round tables in their place. The idea was that there should be no single focal point in the room from which a professor could lecture. We were no longer to play the role of “Sage on the Stage,” but instead we were to be “Guides on the Side,” moving around the room to facilitate student discussion.

A few weeks after the Student Retention Office remodel was finished, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Engagement attended an ed-tech conference. Upon his return, we were directed to record our class sessions and post them online, so that students could watch them at their leisure. The problem was that we were “guides on the side” now, and the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Engagement didn’t want to post hour-long videos of students sitting in circles talking. So we all had to go back to being “sages on the stage,” lecturing to the video camera, but this time we were cautioned to act as “facilitators of experience” rather than “providers of knowledge.”

We’re still stuck with the immovable round tables.

 

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Publishers Weekly reviews THE MUSUBI MURDER by Frankie Bow

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“ . . . winning first mystery. . . Bow, who teaches at a public university, uses wry humor to alleviate the horror of her heroine’s situation and is familiar enough with island culture to know the popularity of Musubi rice balls with a heart of Spam.”

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In The Musubi Murder, new assistant professor Molly Barda is using her top-ten literature Ph.D. to teach resume-writing to business majors at remote Mahina State University, “Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow!”

Keenly aware of the brutal realities of the academic job market, Molly just wants to keep her head down and stay out of trouble until she gets tenure. Naturally she ends up getting dragged into the middle of a grisly murder case.

The Musubi Murder is a lighthearted murder mystery that affectionately portrays small-town life and big academic egos in rural Hawaii.

Frankie Bow knows academia. As they say, “You couldn’t make this stuff up!” You’ll laugh at Bow’s satirical sense of humor and the (almost) unbelievable lengths her university goes to in order to retain any breathing student.

—Kathleen Kelley Reardon, author of Shadow Campus and several bestselling business books.

21 ratings averaging 4.76 stars on Goodreads

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19 reviews averaging 4.3 stars on Audible.com

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6 reviews averaging 4.8 stars on Amazon.com

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Frankie Bow’s first novel, THE MUSUBI MURDER , is available at Audible.com, Amazon.com, and iTunes.

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In The Musubi Murder, new assistant professor Molly Barda is using her top-ten literature Ph.D. to teach resume-writing to business majors at remote Mahina State University, “Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow!”

Keenly aware of the brutal realities of the academic job market, Molly just wants to keep her head down and stay out of trouble until she gets tenure. Naturally she ends up getting dragged into the middle of a grisly murder case.

The Musubi Murder is a lighthearted murder mystery that affectionately portrays small-town life and big academic egos in rural Hawaii.

Frankie Bow knows academia. As they say, “You couldn’t make this stuff up!” You’ll laugh at Bow’s satirical sense of humor and the (almost) unbelievable lengths her university goes to in order to retain any breathing student.

—Kathleen Kelley Reardon, author of Shadow Campus and several bestselling business books.

21 ratings averaging 4.76 stars on Goodreads

20 reviews averaging 4.3 stars on Audible.com

7 reviews averaging 4.6 stars on Amazon.com

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Congratulations to M. from B.C., winner of the signed ARC of The Musubi Murder!

I just mailed a signed review copy of The Musubi Murder off to the winner of the Goodreads Giveaway, M. in British Columbia!

 

Congratulations to M, who was the lucky winner chosen from 826 entries. I hear that spring has not yet fully sprung up there in the GWN, so here’s hoping that The Musubi Murder provides a bit of welcome tropical warmth.

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Show your love for Mahina State University, “Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow” (and support the Waiakea Inter 7th grade band)

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Mahina State University is where, according to the local radio and TV spots, “Your Future Begins Tomorrow.”

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It is also where The Musubi Murder takes place.

The new official school colors (as decided by student vote) are red, gold and green, but the classic “happy moon” design remains a local favorite, and a bestseller in the Mahina State University bookstore.

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