Murder doesn’t usually happen in Urbana. At least, not how it does in author James Courter’s novel “Murder Happens,” a literary mystery set in the same places University students walk past every day.

Kenneth M. Courter Jr., 21, of Albrightsville died Monday, February 27 in Reading Hospital. Born in East Stroudsburg, he was a son of Kenneth M. Courter Sr. of East Stroudsburg and Patricia ...