Dissatisfied with her life with her new stepfamily, ten-year-old Tessa plots to kill her stepfather and blame it on her stepbrother, Joe, a plot of which only her dead father--who, while he was alive, knew the real Tessa--is aware....
A member of the Fridesley Runners, a jogging club, Veronica Stallwood finds herself getting in over her head with a fellow runner when she agrees to help the woman repossess some family heirlooms the woman's estranged husband has appropriated....
Oxford University has more than a hundred libraries, some huge and old, like the prestigious Bodleian, some small and idiosyncratic. Each college, each department, runs its own independent library, but their catalogues are linked by computer so that ...
Kate Ivory schreibt an ihrem neuen Roman. Sie ist überzeugt: Dieses Werk wird ihr Durchbruch. Mehr als zuvor braucht sie daher nun die Unterstützung ihrer Agentin Estelle. Doch von Estelle fehlt jede Spur. Ihr frisch angetrauter Ehemann Peter weige...
While writing a novel, Kate Ivory clashes with Olivia Blacket, an English don at Leicester College, and when Olivia turns up dead and Kate's boyfriend becomes the prime suspect, Kate must find a way to unearth the truth...
Excerpt from Blackheath: A Poem in Five Cantos; Lumena or the Ancient British Battle; And Various Other Poems Including a Translation of the First Book of the Argonautica of C. Valerius Flaccus
This Volume, honoured by' the condescending patronag...In order to come to terms with the death of a close friend, Kate Ivory has escaped Oxford and found sanctuary in a friend's cottage a few miles away. Here, in the peace of the countryside, she hopes to find inspiration for her next novel. However, sh...
Joyce Fielding is missing. She walked out one afternoon into the streets of Oxford and just disappeared. And now, Kate Ivory has been hired to find her. Joyce is a sober, respectable widow in her sixties and there is nothing at first glance to explai...
Writer Kate Ivory has new neighbours on either side of her terraced house. On one side lives Jeremy Wells, a diffident, charming Oxford academic. On the other live Laura and Edward Foster who are intent on enjoying every moment of their retirement. N...
Writer Kate Ivory can't believe her luck when she's head-hunted by a successful Oxford publishing house. But it seems her good fortune is to be short-lived. Her new young editor, Neil Orson, falls victim to fraud and has to fight to clear his name an...