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Shivering Turn, the: A PI series set in Oxford
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Shivering Turn, the: A PI series set in Oxford

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Introducing Oxford-based private investigator Jennie Redhead in the first of a brand-new mystery series.

'My daughter's not just run away - she's dead! When Mary Corbet walks into private investigator Jennie Redhead's rundown Oxford office one pleasant spring day in 1974, she is a desperate woman. Although she's convinced her daughter has been murdered, she can get neither the police nor her husband to agree with her.

Jennie is not convinced either, but more out of compassion than conviction agrees to take the case. The only clue she has to go on is a fragment of an obscure 17th century poem she finds in Linda's bedroom: Or will you, like a cold and errant coward/Abandon all and make a shivering turn. But from that one clue Jennie's investigations will lead her beyond the city's dreaming spires to Oxford's darker underbelly, in which lurks a hidden world of privilege, violence and excess.

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Release dateFeb 1, 2017
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Sally Spencer

<b>Sally Spencer </b>worked as a teacher both in England and Iran – where she witnessed the fall of the Shah. She now lives on the Costa Blanca with her partner, one rescue cat, two rescue dogs and innumerable fruit trees. Having once been an almost fanatical mahjong player, she is now obsessed with duplicate bridge. As well as the Jennie Redhead mysteries, Spencer is also the author of the successful DCI Monika Paniatowski series, the Chief Inspector Woodend mysteries and the Inspector Blackstone series.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    I was reading a recommendation about this series on Kirkus, and thought I'd read the first one. A second one has been published. The series is about 29 year old private investigator Jennie Redhead. It's set in Oxford, England during the early 1970's. I quite liked Jennie. She's an English major from Oxford with not quite a first in English literature. That alone would have got my interest as there are many references to literature in this story. She was a police officer, but was asked to leave because she was trying to expose corruption in the top echelons of the police department. She decided to set up her own private detective agency. In this book. a distraught mother comes to Jennie to ask her to find her 17 year old daughter's body so that she can have a proper burial. As Jennie digs, she finds just what happened to this innocent girl, and she traces it all the way back to Oxford University itself, and into a posh literary club made up of priviliged upper class young males. She discovers some horrifying details, and as she tries to find justice for Linda, she steps on some pretty big upper class toes. I really liked Jennie. She was earthy, honest and a no-nonsence G&T drinking young woman who is very aware of the depravities that the human race can sink to. But I did find the mystery fairly easy to figure out, so that brought the book down from a 4 to a 3 1/2 for me. The other book in this series might be worth a read, just for Jennie's sake.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    1974 Oxford and Mary Corbet hires Jennifer Redhead a private investigator to find her missing seventeen year old daughter. Redhead is not totally convinced that the girl has not just runaway but on finding a clue in her bedroom she seeks further information from a friend at the University.
    I really enjoyed the story as it unfolded, a well-written tale with characters I look forward to seeing more of as the series develops.
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