The Poison Tree - Hardcover

Strong, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385408722 ISBN 13: 9780385408721

Publisher: Doubleday, 1997

Synopsis

Feisty academic Terri Williams moves to Oxford to resume her abandoned doctorate in detective fiction. However, her new home was previously the scene of a savage sexual murder, and Terri soon finds the past returning to invade the present with horrific consequences.

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Review

In the shadowy corridors of a prestigious university, a beautiful woman is entering the darkest place of all: the twisted mind of a killer....

"Strong works out his whodunit plot with care and shows no mercy in exposing the loose morals of Oxford's hedonistic literary crowd."
--The New York Times Book Review

"The classic English mystery meets the modern American thriller...and the result is bloody screaming murder."
--Matthew Hall, author of The Art of Breaking Glass

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From the Back Cover

In the wake of a failed marriage and a misguided love affair, feisty academic Terry Williams moves to Oxford to resume her abandoned doctorate in detective fiction. But her new home, a terraced house on quiet Osney Island, was previously the scene of a savage sexual murder, and Terry soon finds the past returning to invade the present with horrific consequences.

A traumatized stray cat which eats its own babies, a famous neighbour involved in a hushed-up sexual scandal, and the discovery of a series of pornographic letters all serve to involve Terry in a mystery more brutal and more elusive than any tackled by the fictional detectives she studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385408722
• ISBN 13: 9780385408721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336