London: Allison & Busby, (2000). Hardcover first edition - Crime novel set in West Yorkshire featuring reporter Laura Ackroyd and DCI Michael Thackeray. With his career in the balance after a subordinate is shot on an arrest gone bad, Thackerey is sent to Oxford (which he attended as an undergraduate) to take a course in in police work. Upon arriving at his old college of St. Frideswide's (aka Friddies), Thackeray is besieged with disquieting memories of his unhappy days there and summoned by a former tutor, Hugh Greenaway, now the Master of the College, who asks Thackeray to look into the disappearance of a don named Mark Harrison. An excellent, rather complex and engrossing novel. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-749004819.