Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Damned if She Does Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Young professor Meg Doherty has long held a dark secret.


When a renowned professor is viciously murdered at a Manhattan conference, Meg stumbles upon the scene and quickly becomes the prime suspect. It falls to her brother, Shamus, to help prove Meg's innocence.


The estranged sister and brother we met in Reardon's debut novel, Shadow Campus, now find they know less about each other than they thought. In this stand alone sequel, caught in NYC's blinding media spotlight, gilded society and criminal underworld, the pair must confront not only Meg's secret but a long-suppressed family mystery.


Damned If She Does "artfully stirs" what Kirkus Reviews describes as a "dangerous cauldron of ambitious scholars." "Informed and searing" in her "takedown of ivory tower politics," Reardon makes us work for answers throughout the "page-turning scenes" of this MeToo whodunit.


*A Kirkus Reviews 2020 "Great Indie Books Worth Discovering."