DOUBLE TROUBLE is an entertaining page-turner. The disappearance of a controversial history professor from his sailboat on the Connecticut shore initiates a web of intrigue that brings an attractive cast of characters to New York City and Washington, D.C. They include savvy and hapless academics, a popular administrator who is not what he claims to be, a smart and sexy law student, a school teacher with a shadowy past, and two precocious kids. What begins as a halfhearted exploration of a local mystery by amateur sleuths leads to the discovery of the Knights of Malta's involvement in terrorism and the shenanigans of the State Department in Latin America during the Reagan administration. For a story that ultimately involves nine homicides, Double Trouble is upbeat, romantic, and cheerful. Readers who like happy endings will not be disappointed.