Pursuit and Persuasion: A Ben Reese Mystery (Ben Reese Mystery Series)

Pursuit and Persuasion: A Ben Reese Mystery (Ben Reese Mystery Series) by Wright, Sally. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780345425904.

ACADEMIC SLEUTH BEN REESE RETURNS TO SCOTLAND, ENTANGLED IN A CASE OF MURDER AMONG FRIENDS. The sudden death of rich, generous Scottish professor Georgina Fletcher seems like a tragic accident. Indeed, American archivist Ben Reese can scarcely believe that it was not. But Georgina had foreseen her death, and had laid down a secret trail of evidence pointing to a hard-hearted murder committed by someone with much to gain if she died--or to lose if she lived. Was it the brilliant sculptor Georgina had educated and supported? The beautiful student who is also her heir? Her late husbands business associates? Or a jealous colleague in her own department? It appears that someone very close to her not only killed with fiendish cleverness but wants to ensnare Ben like a blind rat in a live trap--from which hell never escape. . . .