Old Wounds - Hardcover

Kelly, Nora

3.16

25 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002326590 ISBN 13: 9780002326599

Publisher: Collins Crime, 1998

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‘Kelly is as stunning on the evocative geography of workplaces as she is at dry, educated repartee. A chilling intrigue, which shrewdly examines professional jealousies and warped psychologies’ John Coleman, Sunday Times (of Bad Chemistry)

The rural campus of Stanford University, though situated within easy reach of New York City, seems too idyllic a setting for murder.

So the discovery of a young female student’s body on a lonely stretch of country road, her throat slashed by a brutal killer, comes as a shock to the community. And to none more so than historian Gillian Adams, who has only recently returned to the town where she grew up, having taken a year’s sabbatical so that she might care for her aged mother.

As the bizarre double life that the dead girl had been leading begins to unfold, with revelations of affairs and incriminating nude photographs, Gillian finds that more than one of her childhood friends – and enemies – is being sucked into the murder hunt. Can it be that one of them is the killer?

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Review:

‘If the genre awarded its own special prize for literary distinction this Cambridge saunter would be a worthy winner’
Observer

‘A readily enjoyable specimen’
Daily Telegraph

‘Good strong characters and a well-depicted Cambridge background’
Times Literary Supplement

From the Back Cover:

Returning to her childhood home on a year's sabbatical in order to care for her aged mother, historian Gillian Adams expects to see little in the way of excitement. The sleepy rural campus of Stanton College, though situated within easy reach of New York, has somehow escaped the violence which plagues the big city... until the body of a young female student is discovered on a lonely stretch of country road.

Almost as shocking as the murder itself are the revelations which follow, forcing the police to conclude that the dead girl had been leading a bizarre double life.

With the murder hunt gaining momentum the town finds itself in the grip of a maelstrom, and more than one of Gillian's childhood friends – and enemies – is sucked into the investigation. Can it be that one of them is the killer?

Like Nora Kelly's previous Gillian Adams novels, 'bad Chemistry' and 'In the Shadow of Kings', this intelligent mystery transcends the genre with its moving portrayal of complex characters embroiled in a chilling intrigue.

'Old Wounds' is Nora Kelly's fourth crime novel featuring historian Gillian Adams. The previous books in the series are: 'In the shadow of King's, My Sister's Keeper' and 'Bad Chemistry', all published by HarperCollins.

'PRAISE FOR NORA KELLY

BAD CHEMISTRY
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'Kelly is as stunning on the evocative geography of workplaces as she is at dry, educated repartee. A chilling intrigue, which shrewdly examines professional jealousies and warped psychologies'
JOHN COLEMAN, 'Sunday Times'

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IN THE SHADOW OF KING'S
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'Good strong characters and a well-depicted Cambridge background'
TIM BINYON, 'Times Literary Supplement'

'Suspicions are neatly divided and there's a plausible line in academic rascality'
GUARDIAN

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MY SISTER'S KEEPER
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'Intelligently conceived academic mystery... timely and literate'
NEW YORK TIMES

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