Rhapsody in Red

By Donn Taylor

Description:

"That Wednesday, two weeks before Thanksgiving, was a bad day to find a corpse on campus." Preston Barclay is a self-made recluse, and he likes it that way. Teaching college history allows him time to grieve the loss of his pianist wife and find relief from the musical hallucinations that have been playing in his head since her death. But when he and a headstrong colleague, Mara Thorn, discover the body of another faculty member on campus, Press's monotonous solitude is destroyed.
When preliminary evidence singles out Press and Mara, they must take some chances (including trusting each other) to build their own defense---by bending the rules just a bit.
They form an unlikely alliance to stay ahead of the police, the college's wary and incompetent administration, and whoever is trying to get away with murder. If they don't succeed, they may end up unemployed, behind bars, or worse...

Book Takeaway:

Beyond entertainment, readers will be challenged to reflect on the theology of good and evil, on the proper role of Christianity in Christian education, and on the excesses of political correctness on campus.

Why the author wrote this book:

I wrote this book chiefly to provide wholesome entertainment within a Christian worldview. But I also wanted to deal with spiritual issues such as the inadequacy of non-Christian religions to explain good and evil and the necessity of humility for human shortcomings. I also wanted to portray several educational issues and to satirize the constraints of political correctness on campus.