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Trick of the dark

McDermid, Val. (Author).

Summary: 'Death is a hollow drum whose beat has measured out my adult life.' So writes Jay Macallan Stewart in her latest volume of memoirs. But nobody has ever asked whether that has been by accident or design. Nobody, that is, until Jay turns her sights on newly-wed and freshly-widowed Magda Newsam. For Magda's mother Corinna is an Oxford don who knows enough of Jay's history to be very afraid indeed. Determined to protect her daughter, Corinna turns to clinical psychologist Charlie Flint. But it's not the best time for Charlie. Her career is in ruins. Pilloried by the press, under investigation by her peers, she's barred from the profiling work she loves. What Corinna's asking may be her last chance at redemption. But as Charlie digs into the past and its trail of bodies she starts to realise the price of truth may be more than she wants to pay.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781554687510 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781554687503 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781554687497 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9781554687497
  • Physical Description: 528 p. ; 24 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Harper Collins, 2011, c2010.
Subject: Oxford (England) -- Fiction
Bridegrooms -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Women psychologists -- Fiction
Marriage -- Fiction
Male-Female Romance -- Fiction
Murder -- Fiction
Murder Investigation -- Fiction
Clinical psychologists -- Fiction
University of Oxford -- Fiction
Genre: Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Academic mystery.

Available copies

  • 13 of 13 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Creston Public Library MYS MCD (Text)
Acquisition Type: Donated
35140001075434 Mystery Volume hold Available -

Summary: After being barred from practice, disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint agrees to help her old professor at Oxford solve the mystery surrounding the death of her daughter's husband--a case that leads her into the arcane world of Oxford colleges. -- NoveList.
'Death is a hollow drum whose beat has measured out my adult life.' So writes Jay Macallan Stewart in her latest volume of memoirs. But nobody has ever asked whether that has been by accident or design. Nobody, that is, until Jay turns her sights on newly-wed and freshly-widowed Magda Newsam. For Magda's mother Corinna is an Oxford don who knows enough of Jay's history to be very afraid indeed. Determined to protect her daughter, Corinna turns to clinical psychologist Charlie Flint. But it's not the best time for Charlie. Her career is in ruins. Pilloried by the press, under investigation by her peers, she's barred from the profiling work she loves. What Corinna's asking may be her last chance at redemption. But as Charlie digs into the past and its trail of bodies she starts to realise the price of truth may be more than she wants to pay.

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