Footfall

Cassandra James in Cambridge #3

by Christine Poulson

Snow is falling. An old woman reads alone in bed. There is the sound of breaking glass and footsteps on the stairs...Cambridge academic Cassandra James is shocked when her friend, Una, is found dead. It looks like a burglary gone wrong, but as more details emerge Cass begins to wonder. Why did Una try to ring her in the moments before she died? Why did she change her will and deprive the Cambridge Literary and Philosophical Institute of her library of Victorian literature? And that's not all that's troubling Cass. Strange things are happening at her daughter's nursery and who is this other Cassandra James running around Cambridge getting her in trouble? The line between appearance and reality begins to blur...

Genres: Mystery

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Christine Poulson was born and brought up in North Yorkshire, England. She is now a research fellow at the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at Sheffield University and chair of the William Morris Society. She has written widely on 19th-century art and literature, and her most recent work of non-fiction was a book on Arthurian legend in British art from 1840 to 1920. She lives with her family in a water mill in Derbyshire, England.

Reviews

[Bryan Lawson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the pacing here from page 1 to the end. a real gripper

[Fiona · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the Cambridge setting. The hiding place was ingenious.

[Sharon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like Poulson’s writing style. The fact that her amateur sleuth is an English professor is, of course, a plus.