After a painful divorce, Cassandra James takes up a lectureship in a women's college in Cambridge and buys an isolated house deep in the Fens. But her quiet life is shattered on a hot summer's day when she discovers the body of Margaret, her head of department, floating in a swimming pool. The shock of finding the body leads Cassandra to be uncharacterisically careless over contraception. As her waistline thickens, so does the plot. For as days grow shorter and darker, Cassandra suspects that Margaret's death was not an accident and that she herself is the next target. As the book races towards its heart-stopping dénouement she has to draw to the utmost on her intelligence and resourcefulness to unmask the killer and protect her unborn child. . .
DEAD
LETTERS was published in May 2002 by Robert Hale and was published as MURDER
IS ACADEMIC: A CAMBRIDGE MYSTERY in the USA by St Martin's Press on 1 April
2004.
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