Pamela Thomas-Graham Books In Order

Ivy League Mystery Books In Order

  1. A Darker Shade of Crimson (1998)
  2. Blue Blood (1999)
  3. Orange Crushed (2004)

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Pamela Thomas-Graham Books Overview

A Darker Shade of Crimson

Being young, gifted, and black at Harvard has never been easy. For Ella Fisher, outspoken and controversial Dean of Students at Harvard Law School, it was murder. 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. In the process she uncovers some of Harvard’s most deeply buried secrets. Nikki learns that plenty of people could have wanted Ella dead. There’s the debonair and married new Harvard president Leo Barrett. Many thought Leo and Ella were lovers, and now he’s looking awfully guilty. The Chairman of the Economics Department suddenly, suspiciously, has a lot of money. And Ella’s radical, Afrocentric ex husband had apparently been blackmailing her. With the help of Ella’s two true friends, Nikki sets out to unravel the mystery and the complications of her own love life. Proving that love can be murder, she drives toward the shocking conclusion that will turn all of Harvard on its ear.

Blue Blood

Conservative Yale law professor Amanda Fox lived for controversy and academic celebrity until someone decided she should die for them. For Harvard economics professor Nikki Chase, it starts with a desperate call from her old friend Gary Fox, now a dean at Yale. His wife, Amanda, has been brutally stabbed to death in inner city New Haven. The police soon arrest one of Amanda’s students for the crime, but Nikki’s investigation uncovers plenty of potential suspects. There’s Max and Jared Fisch, bitterly feuding scions of a powerful right wing family with as much to hide as it has millions to give Yale. High profile activist Reverend Leroy Saunders had a wealth of philosophical and personal scores to settle with Amanda. And there’s Gary himself, poised to become Yale’s next president, who was on increasingly acrimonious and very public outs with his wife. As a powder keg of racial tension and political maneuverings threatens to ignite, Nikki draws on the help of old and new friends as she trails the real killer and deadly truths that will reverberate from Yale’s gothic towers through New Haven’s toughest streets.

Orange Crushed

Pamela Thomas Graham’s beguiling and atmospheric Ivy League novels simmer with hot button issues and unveil layers of malice and murder inside the life academic. Harvard economics professor Nikki Chase is intent on becoming the first tenured African American woman in her department. But with her affinity for solving crimes, she may make her name in a place where the highest levels of human intellect can court the lowest impulses of the human heart. PUBLISH OR PERISH A working weekend at a Princeton conference is just what Nikki needs to deflect the pre holiday pressures both professional and personal that are closing in on her back in Cambridge. And there will be down time, too, at a party honoring professor Earl Stokes, her old friend and mentor. Rumors abound that Stokes, a Princeton superstar, may depart for Harvard, a change that would stir up as much controversy as his new bestselling book on race issues. When Stokes’s body is discovered among the smoldering ruins of the not yet completed black studies building, a shattered Nikki refuses to accept the police findings that the death was accidental. And among the ashes she will uncover a murderous agenda with ominous implications for not only the Princeton campus but Harvard as well.

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