A01=Veronica Stallwood
Agatha Christie
Alexander McCall Smith
amateur sleuth
Author_Veronica Stallwood
Category=FF
Colin Dexter
cosy crime novel
crime novel
Dorothy L. Sayers
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female sleuth
Grantchester
Morse
murder mystery
murder novel
mystery novel
Oxford
Oxfordshire
P.D. James
Ruth Rendell
traditional crime novel
Val McDermid
Product details
- ISBN 9780747268444
- Weight: 170g
- Dimensions: 111 x 175mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jul 2001
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Oxfordshire appeared to be a haven of safety for many children sent away from the bombs falling on London in 1944, but for 10-year-old Chris Barnes, the result was death. Over 50 years later, novelist Kate Ivory, searching for material for her latest historical romance, uncovers Chris's tragic tale. Amongst piles of old papers in the attic of the house she shares with her partner, George, she finds the child's diary and a haunting photograph of a face she cannot forget. Kate determines to uncover the mystery surrounding Chris's death, but George's family appears to be implicated - and Kate is faced with an impossible choice...
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 New College Library.
