Sammy Greene, the tough-talking, Yiddish-spewing, hardnosed radio host, is not necessarily the most beloved face on Ellsford's campus. She is akin to a pit bull, or an enraged terrier, refusing to release even the most tenuous lead.

In DEAD AIR, Sammy has to decide if such a line exists as "enough." Is she willing to risk her life and the lives of her colleagues in hunting down strange events on campus, specifically the strange event that led to the death of a professor whose body she discovered...and whose death everyone labels a suicide? When she realizes several students have suspiciously vanished, not even Gus Pappajohn, campus police chief, can stand in her way. Sammy starts to suspect everyone: Pappajohn, Reed Wyndham, her on- again-off-again boyfriend in the medical department, and anyone who ever had contact with lab monkeys, missing students, or the supposedly cursed "Ellsford Award." While attempting to discover the background of the disappearances, Sammy works to develop the best radio show of her life, hoping it won't be her last.

Excellently written, DEAD AIR ratchets up the suspense from scene-to-scene with twists and turns beyond the usual medical or campus mystery.