"Lap swimming, the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and a simmering romance are amateur sleuth Mary Beth Goldberg's unlikely but invaluable tools as she confronts her latest mystery. Her native ingenuity figures in as well, and when author Audrey Lavin throws in a few slices of pizza and a handful of eccentric college students, these all add up to become the ingredients for irresistible storytelling!" -Akiko Busch, Nine Ways to Cross a River, The Incidental Steward, her essays about land use and stewardship, will be published by Yale University Press in 2013. "Eloquent is the title, elegant and murderously amusing is this academic mystery. The third in Lavin's eloquent 'whodunit?' series, Eloquent Tattoo is another fun read." -Agatha prize winner Rhys Bowen, author of Naughty in Nice, the fifth Royal Spyness mystery, now in stores.