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On a summer's day in Oxford, an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma code is killed. A strange note indicates that the murder is the first in a series, and each new death is accompanied by a different mathematical shape. A logician and a student team up to find the next clue because the killer can be stopped only if someone can crack the code.
22) Dead as a dodo
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Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
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Murder strikes in the natural history museum of the University of Oxford, famed for its zoological specimens. PI Homer Kelly, a Harvard professor who is in town to give a lecture, will solve it.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When two children are pulled from the smoking ruin of their home on Christmas and their parents are nowhere to be found, DI Adam Fawley is faced with one of his most disturbing cases yet as he and his team sift through the smoldering evidence to reveal a terrible truth.
25) Dry bones
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"When human bones are discovered in the cellars beneath St Luke's College - two bodies, buried thirty years apart - the bursar, Charlie Swift, hires Jennie Redhead to investigate. As she uncovers a series of scandals stretching back sixty years, Jennie wonders how well she really knows her old friend Charlie - and whether she can trust him."--Publisher's description.
26) Magpie Lane
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging, an eerie and ancient house, a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost...
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She Writes Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
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Amelia Cole-Lia for short-is one of the first women studying abroad at Oxford University in the 1920s. Finally free from her overbearing Brooklyn parents, she finds a welcome sense of independence in British college life. Lia quickly falls for Scarlett Daniels, an aspiring actress and hardheaded protester. Scarlett introduces her to an exciting gender-equality movement with high stakes. But when their secret love clashes with political uprising, their...
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Series
Oxford murders volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself - and not for the first time - drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. After meeting with a member of the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood, a startling new discovery by Carroll's great niece rocks Oxford, leading to deadly plots, salacious pictures and murder. G must stretch his mathematical mind to its limits to solve the mystery and...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Having reluctantly agreed to make up the numbers at a World War II-themed murder mystery weekend at Mortmead Hall, Anna Hopkins and her fellow dogwalkers, Isadora and Tansy, enjoy themselves far more than they'd expected. Not for long. The weekend's festivities come to an abrupt halt when a body is discovered floating in the ornamental pond. Who was the mysterious woman in the red dress who attended the event without a ticket? As Anna and her friends...
30) Crampton Hodnet
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Publisher
Coffeetown Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Life has a certain reassuring if not terribly exciting rhythm for the residents of North Oxford. Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster companion to Miss Doggett, even if her employer and the woman's social circle regard her as a piece of furniture. Stephen Latimer, the new cleric and Miss Doggett's dashing new tenant, upsets the balance for Miss Morrow by proposing the long discounted possibility of marriage. Miss Doggett's nephew, Mr....
31) Black chalk
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University; a game of consequences, silly forfeits, and childish dares. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal and more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results. Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again...
32) Autumn in Oxford
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"After being blacklisted for having communist sympathies as a student twenty years before, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Tom Wrought escapes Americas Cold War climate to teach at Oxford. There, he falls in love with Liz Spencer, a beautiful married woman. When Lizs husband is pushed in front of a train in the London Underground, Tom is immediately arrested for the murder. Scotland Yard is convinced it has its man, as he had means, motive, and opportunity....
33) The pact
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Publisher
Trapeze
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed.18-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a 'favour', payable on her release from prison. Twenty years later Megan is free. Let the games begin . . ."--Publisher
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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The dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"After being abducted and assaulted, a teenage girl somehow managed to escape from her captor. She is traumatized and needs to heal, but the police need her help to catch her assailant-information she clearly knows, but is unwilling to give. Without the girl's assistance, DI Adam Fawley's investigation is at a dead end. When another girl vanishes under the same circumstances, he recognizes a disturbing pattern-and a link to something long buried in...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"She has everything at stake; he has everything to lose. But one of them is lying, all the same. When an Oxford student accuses one of the university's professors of sexual assault, DI Adam Fawley's team think they've heard it all before. But they couldn't be more wrong. Because this time, the predator is a woman and the shining star of the department, and the student a six-foot male rugby player. Soon DI Fawley and his team are up against the clock...
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