The Shivering Turn - (Jennie Redhead Mystery) by Sally Spencer (Hardcover)

About the Book

17-year-old Linda Corbet is missing and Jennie Redhead is hired to investigate. The only clue she has is a fragment of a 17th century poem she finds in Linda's room. But from that one clue Jennie's investigations will lead her to a hidden world of privilege, violence and excess which lies behind Oxford's dreaming spires.

Book Synopsis

"Spencer scores another top-notch hit with this new series, which features her usual skilful writing, clever plotting, and intriguing characters" - Booklist

Introducing Oxford-based private investigator Jennie Redhead in the first of a brand-new mystery series.

'My daughter's not just run away - she's dead!'

When Mary Corbet walks into private investigator Jennie Redhead's rundown Oxford office one pleasant spring day in 1974, she is a desperate woman. Although she's convinced her daughter has been murdered, she can get neither the police nor her husband to agree with her.

Jennie is not convinced either, but more out of compassion than conviction agrees to take the case. The only clue she has to go on is a fragment of an obscure 17th century poem she finds in Linda's bedroom: Or will you, like a cold and errant coward/Abandon all and make a shivering turn. But from that one clue Jennie's investigations will lead her beyond the city's dreaming spires to Oxford's darker underbelly, in which lurks a hidden world of privilege, violence and excess.

Review Quotes

"Anglophiles will find much to like"-- "Publishers Weekly"

"Spencer scores another top-notch hit with this new series, which features her usual skilful writing, clever plotting, and intriguing characters"-- "Booklist"