Jessica James Mysteries : volumes 1-3

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JESSICA JAMES RIDES AGAIN...AND AGAIN... Kelly Oliver serves up an irreverent murder mystery series with a fierce female lead readers will adore. Twenty-one-year-old Jessica James isn't your average Northwestern University Philosophy PhD candidate. Raised on a Montana ranch by a charming but alcoholic mother, she's as scrappy as she is smart--a clever, endearingly awkward, and downright hilarious amateur sleuth.

WOLF, Book 1
Unbeknownst to everyone but the department secretary and janitor, Jessica's living in the attic of the Victorian mansion transformed into Northwestern's philosophy department. Compared to the dingy Montana trailer park of her childhood, the attic is the Waldorf to Jessica. She works hard to overcome the best efforts of her arrogant thesis advisor, Professor Baldrick Wolfgang "The Wolf" Schmutzig, Preeminent Philosopher and World-Class Dickhead, to prevent Jessica from completing her degree.
Things take a sinister turn when Jessica and her pal Jack find the smug professor murdered in the bathtub of his office. That's when her real education begins.
Smart, capable women shine in this cast. An irresistible treat for anyone who's ever wanted to murder the Wolf in their own life.

COYOTE, Book 2 Jessica James, scrappy cowgirl-turned-academic, returns home for summer break and a summer job at majestic Glacier National Park, only to take on one of the biggest oil companies in the country--and its connections to corruption, sex trafficking, and murder. A murder way too close to home...

Just days after Jessica's cousin Mike confronts a group of suits from the infamous fracking conglomerate, Knight Industries, which intends to buy out the local lumber mill, Mike winds up dead. And Jessica knows it's no accident.
Knight Industries, she learns, is planning on fracking in the Blackfeet Reservation--and it's involved in a reservation prostitution ring.

Jessica is pulled into a David vs. Goliath battle to prevent the oil rush from overtaking beautiful, indigenous Montana--and also into a bundle of startling hidden truths about the accident that claimed her father's life eleven years ago.

FOX, Book 3

A predator is drugging Ivy League co-eds-- attractive college girls, all at the top of their class-- and dumping them unconscious behind dumpsters. When it happens to Jessica, our Nietzsche-quoting, distinctly Western heroine realizes she wasn't raped, she was robbed. Robbed of something as valuable as life itself.

Armed with her quick wit and cowgirl grit, Jessica takes it on herself to solve the bewildering medical mystery. She will also discover secrets about her own identity that force her to rethink her past.
Grittier than its predecessors, Kelly Oliver's third page-turning Jessica James adventure blends a smartly-funny and delightfully complex murder mystery with a touch of medical thriller, in which Jessica and her