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Laura Principal is repelled but fascinated when she is asked to investigate the case of an eleven-year-old boy who has murdered his foster mother. It is not the sort of crime one would expect in Cambridge. And that's not all. someone with a vested interest in the foster mother's murder is standing the shadows, watching Laura's every move ...
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Michelle Spring was raised on Vancouver Island. She worked for many years as an academic in Cambridge where she lives with her husband and their two children. She has written several academic books. This is her fifth novel.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of the third novel in the "Laura Principal" series. SIGNED by Spring on the title page. Light bump to the rear cover causing a 1/4-inch closed-tear. In near fine / near fine condition. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 31178
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Hardcover. fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper, 1st edition. The shocking murder lingered in the tabloids for weeks. A sweet elderly lady bludgeoned to death in a quiet corner of Cambridge by her eleven-year-old foster child, Daryll Flatt. Seller Inventory # FM18.370
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Condition: FINE. First printing. Canadian-born author's third mystery, featuring Laura Principal who left an academic life at Cambridge University for a career as an investigator. Ian Rankin called Prinicpal "one of contemporary crime fiction's most intriguing and satisfying sleuths." Like her protaganist, Spring lived and worked as an academic in Cambridge, so she knows the area well. In this novel she investigates the case of an eleven yerar old boy who was convicted of murdering his foster mother. SIGNED on the title page. 261 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 73941