Every era must have its object of satire, and at the end of the 20th century, New Age philosophy and practice is it. In D. J. H. Jones"s Murder in the New Age, protagonist Nancy Cook, a Chaucerian scholar, wields her sharp analytical brain like a scalpel as she dissects the most cherished beliefs of the New Agers with whom she shares the rent while on sabbatical in Santa Fe. However, when affirmations turn to murder, the good professor finds herself putting her scholarly methods to an entirely different use. If one occasionally wonders why Cook stays--or why the New Agers would have her--that quibble is soon forgotten in the flurry of satirical bon mots and sly assaults on fuzzy, feel-good thinking that accompany Nancy Cook"s amateur sleuthing.