Oxford Shift

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Joyce Fielding walked out one afternoon into the streets of Oxford and just disappeared. And now, Kate Ivory has been hired to find her. Joyce is a respectable widow in her sixties and there is nothing at first glance to explain her disappearance, so Kate consults her own mother, the irrepressible Roz, to help solve the puzzle. It isn t long before Kate, following Joyce s trail, discovers a dead body. The police may think that Joyce is a murderer and Kate an interfering amateur, but Kate realises that Joyce has unwittingly walked into danger, and that the hunt for the missing grandmother is a race against time...

Reviews

'Gives Colin Dexter a run for his money among the dreaming spires... Stallwood has fought her way to the top of the tree in British crime writing with some arrestingly written thrillers' [THE TIMES]

'Enjoyable' [Gerald Kaufman, SCOTSMAN]

'This is the best novel yet in this series' [GOOD BOOK GUIDE]

Author Bio

Veronica Stallwood was born in London, educated abroad and now lives near Oxford. In the past she has worked at the Bodleian Library and more recently in Lincoln College library.

Previous Books:

THE RAINBOW SIGN (0 7472 6064 8, 09/99), OXFORD BLUE (0 7472 6008 7, 02/99), OXFORD KNOT (0 7472 5990 9, 09/98)