London: Orion, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian-born author's second mystery, featuring Laura Principal who left an academic life at Cambridge University for a career as an investigator. Ian Rankin called Prinicpal "one of contemporary crime fiction's most intriguing and satisfying sleuths." Like her protaganist, Spring lived and worked as an academic in Cambridge, so she knows the area well. In this novel she becomes involved in the plight of foreign born domestic workers. 216 pp. ISBN: 1-857976460.