I couldn't fer into this book.
Had no connection to Landau.
Decided to stop.
Will potentionaly try again.

The Savage Professor by Robert Roper

236 Pages
Publisher: Asahina & Wallace, Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members’ Titles
Release Date: April 15, 2015

Fiction (Adult), General Fiction (Adult), Mystery, Thrillers

Dr. Anthony Landau is an epidemiologist. He comes home and finds a dead woman in his bed. Since they once had a relationship, he is the prime suspect. Landau finds his maid’s mutilated body under his house. He cannot stand the stress anymore and leaves the country. After 23 days he returns, and the news show begins. He is the police’s prime suspect, but he believes his son is somehow involved. He only has his friends to help him clear his name, but now he is not sure who to trust.

The story has a steady pace, the characters are somewhat developed, and it is written in the third person point of view This is a very good whodunit with plot twists and turns you do not see coming. If you like murder mysteries, you will enjoy this book.

This was an interesting read but fell short of a good mystery.
Many thanks to Asahina & Wallace and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

An interesting novel. The protagonist is not particularly likeable, but you nevertheless want to keep reading. I tend not to like books that have unlikeable protagonists, but this one worked quite well. The main character is an academic, which makes this a bit of a campus-mystery/crime novel. An interesting blend.

Not my favourite mystery, but good enough to keep me reading and to think about finding more by the author.

A highly respected an accomplished UC Berkley Professor, Anthony Landau, arrives home to find a dead woman in his bed. Not just any woman but someone he was in a previous relationship that ended badly. This begins a chain of grisly discoveries that all point to Landau.
I initially got this read several years ago through Net Galley but would only get through a few lines before a more compelling story would distract me. I finally committed to read it and found the concept of the story very intriguing. Unfortunately, the transitions were muddy, so I sometimes had to read a passage several times. Professor Landau is not very likeable, making him an easy villain. The story takes some interesting turns that kept me reading to the end but the buildup crashed badly. The story ends abruptly and left me feeling disappointed.

This was a murder/mystery but all the graphic violence and mutilation rather put me off the story. There were lots of twist and turns and it would have been a good story if a little less gory.