Death at the Alma Mater
By (Author) G.M. Malliet
Little, Brown Book Group
Constable
2nd July 2015
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
256
Width 165mm, Height 202mm, Spine 19mm
186g
Beg, borrow . . . or kill!
St. Michael s College, Cambridge, is prestigious, stately and in frightful disrepair. To replenish its dwindling coffers, the College s Master holds a fundraising weekend for wealthy alums. But all goes awry when the glamorous and despised Lexy Laurant is found strangled on the grounds. There s a lengthy list of likely suspects: Lexy s debt-ridden Latino lover, her titled ex-husband who left her for another woman, and a garrulous oil-rich Texan with something to hide, among others. As Detective Chief Inspector St. Just weighs clashing egos, he discovers unsavoury secrets . . . and a shocking twist.G M Malliet attended Oxford University and holds a graduate degree from the University of Cambridge. She now lives in the US.