For moral support, she turns to Maggie Daily, a teacher, landlady, and poet whose rich stories and rolling tones provide the book with texture, history, and charm. For advice, she turns occasionally to Raphael Griffin, a cop who has traded the bougainvillea of the British Virgin Islands for the ivy of Harvard Yard. A cast of richly drawn and complex characters helps and hinders her quest. When Rosezella, Harvard's most powerful black woman and Nikki's good friend, dies mysteriously on the eve of a new school year, Nikki finds herself compelled to track down all the clues leading to the killer. For Rosezella Maynette Fisher, it was murder." "Seven generations of us have found it exhilarating, perplexing, difficult, and dangerous. "Being young and black at Harvard requires advanced survival skills," she writes. She is brilliant, beautiful, ambitious, and black-a characteristic Thomas-Graham makes clear from the get-go. At 30, Nikki has already eschewed a career on Wall Street to become a professor of economics at Harvard, her alma mater. Proving that love can be murder, she drives toward the shocking conclusion that will turn all of Harvard on its ear.In her debut outing as a mystery novelist, Pamela Thomas-Graham introduces the world to a delightful and exciting amateur female detective, Nikki Chase. With the help of Ella's two true friends, Nikki sets out to unravel the mystery - and the complications of her own love life. And Ella's radical, Afrocentric ex-husband had apparently been blackmailing her. The Chairman of the Economics Department suddenly, suspiciously, has a lot of money. Many thought Leo and Ella were lovers, and now he's looking awfully guilty. There's the debonair - and married - new Harvard president Leo Barrett. Nikki learns that plenty of people could have wanted Ella dead. In the process she uncovers some of Harvard's most deeply buried secrets. After Nikki Chase - a smart, ambitious, attractive black economics professor - stumbles over her friend Ella's body during a blackout in a classroom building, she finds herself plunged into the investigation of her death. For Ella Fisher, outspoken and controversial Dean of Students at Harvard Law School, it was murder. Being young, gifted, and black at Harvard has never been easy.
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