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A breakthrough in paediatric medicine. A battle-scarred tomcat. A tribe in the South American rainforest. How could they possibly be connected? Lesbian literary scholar Morgan Byrd has no time for babies, or cats. But when the disappearance of her university's resident tomcat is rapidly followed by baby snatching and murder, Morgan is drawn into the police inquiry, alongside ten-year-old Oliver Cresswell, a maths prodigy turned boy detective with a man-sized secret to hide. While their input is not always welcome, Detective Inspector Burdock soon finds that he needs their unorthodox assistance to unravel his investigation, filled as it is with red herrings, tumultuous twists and eccentric characters, from academics to members of a closed religious sect. As for Alka-Seltzer, the disreputable campus cat, the circumstances behind his grisly end will offer an unexpected glimpse into a political heart of darkness...

Judith Woolf is a novelist, literary critic, translator, poet, and librettist. Her second novel, A Chalked Heart, was short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and earned her a Writer's Bursary from the Scottish Arts Council, and she was Writer in Residence at the first Ilkley Literature Festival. Her translation of Natalia Ginzburg's autobiographical novel, The Things We Used to Say, was highly commended by the judges for the John Florio Prize, and her singing version of the opening scene of The Magic Flute was a prize winner in the John Dryden Translation Competition. Her academic teaching and research have centred on narrative in many of its forms, from life writing, especially in connection with the Holocaust, to story patterns in European literature and folklore. The Case of the Campus Cat is her thirteenth book and her third novel.