When the body of a controversial feminist professor is found near a fraternity lodge in a sleepy Ohio village dominated by a small but prestigious liberal-arts school, everyone is stunned. But when more murders follow, we realize this serial killer wants more than a body count: s/he wants to kill the college. As the story develops—alternately narrated by the campus security guard who discovered the first body and the college's deliciously pretentious president—it soon becomes clear that the killer may succeed.