ANTONIA FRASER

Quiet as a Nun

A Jemima Shore Mystery

"A judicious mixture of puzzle, excitement, and terror."—P.D. James

When a murder takes place in a secluded tower at Blessed Eleanor's Convent in Sussex and the victim is an old school friend, Britain's most popular TV reporter Jemima Shore finds herself in the middle of a disturbing puzzle. The dead woman, a nun, was to inherit one of the largest fortunes in Britain.

Jemima walks into the eye of a worldly storm of fear — and the more she learns, the clearer it becomes that more lives, including her own, are being threatened.

  • Quiet as a Nun was a PBS Mystery! television presentation.
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1998 / paperback / ISBN 0-393-31822-2 / 6" x 8" / 192 pages / Mystery
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ANTONIA FRASER

Oxford Blood

A Jemima Shore Mystery

"With deft, wry prose and a credible plot, Fraser holds our interest and leaves us clamoring for more Jemima Shore mysteries."—Publishers Weekly

In this tale Jemima is reluctantly shooting a TV exposé — "Golden Lads and Girls" — on the exotic lifestyles of overprivileged undergraduates. Among them is Lord Saffron, the wealthy, twenty-year-old heir to the former foreign secretary. When a confession by a dying midwife throws Saffron's birth and bloodline into doubt, Jemima's interest in the documentary perks up considerably. Then a student is murdered, drawing Jemima into a case that will demand the utmost of her skills of detection.


The acclaimed English biographer Lady Antonia Fraser is also a talented mystery writer whose Quiet As a Nun was filmed for the Mystery! series on PBS.
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1998 / paperback / ISBN 0-393-31824-9 / 6" x 8" / 224 pages / Mystery
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