A Darker Shade of Crimson: An Ivy League Mystery (Ivy League Mysteries) - Tapa dura

The dean of students, a black woman, is murdered in Harvard University. The body is discovered by her friend, Nikki Chase, and in the course of her investigation Nikki, a black economics professor, hears that the victim may have been having an affair with the college president.The new president of Harvard University becomes a prime suspect in the death of Rosezella Maynette Fisher, the opinionated, African American Dean of Students at Harvard Law School, and it is up to economics professor and amateur sleuth Veronica Chase to solve the crime

Pamela Thomas-Graham is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College, where she received a degree in Economics magna cum laude and was awarded the Captain Jonathan Fay prize -- the highest annual honor bestowed by Radcliffe -- as the student "showing the greatest promise" in her graduating class. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, Thomas-Graham was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. At age thirty-two, she became one of the most influential women in American business when she was named the first black woman partner at McKinsey & Company, the world's largest management consulting firm. A leader of the firm's Media and Entertainment Practice, she advises Fortune 500 companies on a wide variety of strategic issues. Thomas-Graham serves on the boards of directors of the New York City Opera, the American Red Cross of Greater New York, and Girls Incorporated (formerly the Girls Club of America). She has been profiled in a number of leading publications, including Fortune, and was named to the prestigious "40 Under 40" list of fasttrack executives in Crain's New York Business. Originally from Detroit, she divides her time between Manhattan and Westchester County with her husband, Lawrence Otis Graham, a writer and attorney. A Darker Shade of Crimson is her first novel and marks the beginning of her Ivy League mystery series.