Old Wounds - Softcover

Kelly, Nora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743498186 ISBN 13: 9780743498180

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2004

Synopsis

Historian Gillian Adams drops both her academic career in Vancouver and her plans to spend her sabbatical in London with policeman lover Edward in order to return to her childhood home up the Hudson and care for her aging mother whose heart is giving out. She keeps stimulated with a light guest-lecturer load at sleepy, rural Stanton College, a campus that seems serene, but is soon unsettled by the murder of a student on a lonely stretch of road. Gillian gets involved in solving the crime, facing both her past and her future and copes with the opening-and healing-of old wounds.

About this title

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743498186
• ISBN 13: 9780743498180
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304