Publisher's Synopsis
"There is life after Colin Dexter" THE TIMES "Stallwood is in the top rank of crime writers, and can produce shivers even in a heatwave" DAILY TELEGRAPH When Kate Ivory meets up with an old friend, Faith Beeton, she is drawn into the untidy politics of Faith's Oxford college, Bartlemas. Faith needs an impartial opinion on a pretty, blonde student, Daisy Tompkins, who has put in a formal complaint about her tutor, Joseph Fechan - an odd, unattractive man - which Faith, as Dean of Women Students, is bound to investigate. But Faith finds the young woman devious and manipulative and she doesn't believe her story. Then Daisy is murdered and Joseph Fechan is an obvious suspect - but not, Faith believes, the right one. Kate is drawn into the search for the truth. Is Joseph Fechan misunderstood or is he as weird as the students think?
