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Title: shocking
Review: Shocking -- because I read The George Eliot book first, and based on that (even though it's essentially chewing gum for the eyes of TVphobes) I sought out Skom's other two books, and this one is unbelievably amateurish -- not at all as smooth as book number two. Even so, neither of Skom's first two books present her protagonist as much more than a robot. As I said in a comment to a reviewer of the George Eliot book, there is a tremendous temptation to psychoanalyze: has she become an academic because she is unsuited to anything more social? Asberger's syndrome? Definitely obsessive. And not particularly logical in her pursuit of dangerous perpetrators: would you venture into isolated quarters when you know there's a killer around, a killer who is probably after you? ("Who calls me coward?")A question: does Northwestern University library use the Dewey Decimal System?! Most academic libraries use the LC classification...
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