Publisher Description
University of Oxford tutor and bestselling author Jason Verdoodt has it all: acclaim, women, money…and an enemy or two. When he's found dead at the bottom of the stairs during a celebratory reception at St Rumwold's College, many wonder if seething jealousy of his literary success has turned someone's mind to murder. Detective Chief Inspector Arthur St. Just becomes inescapably drawn into an investigation that takes him down the historic streets of Oxford and into the hallowed halls of its university. Alongside his fiancée, crime-fiction writer Portia De'Ath, he uncovers several motives for murdering the celebrated but insufferable Jason—whose next novel may be a threat to many in his orbit—and no shortage of suspects who are nursing a grudge from the first novel. Has someone decided to write revenge into the plot?
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About G. M. Malliet
G. M. Malliet
is a journalist, copywriter, and award-winning author of mystery fiction. She attended
Oxford University and holds a graduate degree from the University of Cambridge.
Her first novel, Death of a Cozy Writer, was chosen by Kirkus Reviews as a Best
Book of 2008 and won the 2008 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. She now lives
in the Washington, DC, area.