Gillian Adams, a university lecturer, is outraged when Rita, her best student, is turned down for a fellowship and believes it is because she is a feminist. Then Rita dies in an accident and Gillian, researching her death, discovers she was murdered. By the author of "In the Shadow of King's".
Nora Kelly is an American-born Canadian mystery writer best known for her Gillian Adams series. She earned degrees from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University and studied at Cambridge. Kelly won the Arthur Ellis Award for Old Wounds in 1999. Based in Vancouver's Strathcona neighborhood, she is a founding president of City Opera Vancouver and has contributed as an associate producer and librettist. She also authored a history of nursing in Vancouver.