Bad Chemistry - Hardcover

Kelly, Nora

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312109342 ISBN 13: 9780312109349

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1994

Synopsis

For Gillian Adams, a summer at Cambridge University, in whose hallowed halls she took her doctorate years ago, would seem to offer an ideal respite. She goes there for a long-awaited reunion with her lover, Edward Gisborne, and for a break from the campus politicking that pervades the University of the Pacific Northwest, where Gillian is head of the history department.
Then a brilliant young scientist, the only woman on the chemistry department staff, is found dead. Gillian finds herself doubly involved - by her relationship with Edward, now a Scotland Yard Detective Chief Inspector, and by her longtime friendships at the university. The police scramble to investigate, but it is Gillian herself who goes furthest toward unraveling the volatile mixture of modern science, contemporary mores, and time-honored university tradition that led to murder.

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Review

"This is Amanda Cross-land, with a loosened literariness but tighter screws on the action.     --"Oxford Times"

"Nora Kelly has really caught the London that I love. The landscape, the people, and the idiom:  they are all here."    -- Natasha Cooper, former Chairman, Crime Writer's Association

"Intelligently conceived academic mystery...timely and literate."     -- "New York Times "of "Old Wounds"

 

"This is Amanda Cross-land, with a loosened literariness but tighter screws on the action. --"Oxford Times"

"Nora Kelly has really caught the London that I love. The landscape, the people, and the idiom: they are all here." -- Natasha Cooper, former Chairman, Crime Writer's Association

"Intelligently conceived academic mystery...timely and literate." -- "New York Times "of "Old Wounds"

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From the Back Cover

BACK IN CAMBRIDGE, HISTORIAN GILLIAN ADAMS FINDS MURDER WAITING...

The death of a brilliant young scientist in the Chemistry Department at Cambridge shocks both the university and the town, and Gillian Adams – a Canadian academic in Cambridge for the summer – finds herself caught up in the midst of investigations.

Venomous professional rivalries and a clandestine love affair are only two of the motives for this vicious murder. When a second body turns up there appears to be no links with the first, but everyone knows that if the deaths can be tied, the thread will lead to the murderer. While the police methodically sift the evidence, Gillian takes a different approach, asking the questions that only a woman can.

‘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'

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0312109342
• ISBN 13: 9780312109349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1