 In
the wake of a failed marriage and a misguided love affair, academic
Terry Williams moves to Oxford to resume her abandoned doctorate
in detective fiction. But her new home in 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 traumatised stray cat, a famous neighbour involved in a hushed-up
sexual scandal, and the discovery of a cache of strange pornography
all serve to involve Terry in a mystery more elusive and more brutal
than any tackled by the fictional detectives she studies.
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