Dog Star

There has been a death on the University campus. Chloe Hutchins, a painting major at the Art College, has been found hanging from a tree in the campus orchard, with a rope dyed purple. Was it a performance art project gone terribly wrong? Or perhaps a suicide? Or something else? Ed Schuyler, the detective from the County Barracks assigned to the case, is open to the ideas of both accident or suicide as the cause. As for the other, though...murder? Cyrus Barnaby, another painting major, and as close to a boyfriend as Chloe had allowed, is convinced that she was murdered. Beyond the more obvious reasons, he has one more, one so compelling he half-questions his sanity: he thinks Chloe may be haunting him, trying every way she can, from wherever she has gone, to tell him who murdered her. These two journeys, Detective Schuyler's in this world, and Cyrus's in the next, must inevitably come together to answer the question, to bring peace to both the living and the dead: was Chloe murdered? And if so, who did it?