And Only Man is Vile

The Snowdrop Mysteries #10

by Susan Alexander

To Oxford professor Maggie Eliot, it seems everyone she knows is pregnant. The women in her husband’s family. The daughters of her friends. Her colleagues and her colleagues’ wives. Too old to have children herself, Maggie finds the situation raises issues she thought had long been resolved. Then two murders occur at her Oxford college and neither victim is a likely candidate for homcide. Does someone have a grudge against the school? A fellow professor is arrested and he begs Maggie to help prove he is innocent. Although she despises the man, Maggie reluctantly agrees to investigate. Together with a feisty private detective, she discovers many things that confirm her opinion of her colleague, but no evidence that indicates his guilt. At the same time, Maggie has her own problems. She is being stalked, her books burned and her home in Oxford vandalized. Could these events have any connection to the murders? Maggie is determined to find out.

358 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 29, 2016

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[Patricia · Rating 2 out of 5]

But not as vile as this author's style...

Seriously, a native Bostonian who can'f spell Marlborough Street correctly cannot be taken seriously...Marlboro is a cigarette. Alexander has her in error about her title...it's not "Lady Margaret Raynham", just Lady Raynham. Though as a dowager after her husband's death she would be Margaret, Lady Raynham, possibly. Though why she wants to be married to a possessive, demented, psychopath abuser is beyond me. Oh, and in book 11 she includes a multi chapter preview of book 12, to be called Dies Dirae and to appear in fall of 2015. And here we are in June 2017 and no book...