by VictoriaBlake (Author)
Sam Falconer is pretty good at taking care of herself. Four times world judo champion, she now runs the Gentle Way investigation agency in London. But when her brother Mark asks her to return to Oxford to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Sam finds herself confronting a past she hoped she'd left behind. Oxford is full of ghosts and Sam has never quite recovered from finding the body of a murdered 4-year-old girl there. To this day, she has no idea what led her to the scene and she dreads being back in the city. As Sam begins to investigate the woman's disappearance, she finds the trail leads back to the university. But the closed academic world is unwilling to share its secrets with a stranger. Soon it becomes clear that someone is determined to frighten her off the case, and then, out of the blue, Sam receives a letter from a man who's been dead for twenty-eight years - her father...Intricately woven and ingeniously plotted, Victoria Blake's debut novel marks her as an exciting new voice in British crime-writing.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 15 Dec 2003
ISBN 10: 0752860518
ISBN 13: 9780752860510
Book Overview: 'Blake's Sam Falconer joins the ranks of strong but flawed female characters who have taken crime fiction by the throat and shaken it until its teeth rattle.' Stephen Booth Spiked with energy and intelligence, Victoria Blake's debut novel marks her as a bright new voice in British crimewriting Samantha Falconer is a woman with a past - ex-judo champion and reluctant discoverer of bodies... Wonderful Oxford setting that Victoria Blake knows well - this novel will appeal to fans of Colin Dexter and Veronica Stallwood