A celebration in Oxford for university tutor and bestselling author Jason Verdoot, attended by DCI St. Just and his fiancee Portia, is a night to remember . . . for all the wrong reasons.University of Oxford tutor and bestselling author Jason Verdoodt has it all acclaim, women, money . . . and an enemy or two. When hes found dead at the bottom of the stairs during a celebratory reception at St Rumwolds College, many wonder if seething jealousy of his literary success has turned someones 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 fiancee, crime fiction writer Portia DeAth, 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?

Binding: Hardback;240 pages; Publisher: Canongate Books; Classification: FF; Weight: 544 g; Dimensions: 147 x 224 x 24

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