The handsome student who lived at 57 West Street died there too, his brutal murderer never brought to justice. For Terry Williams, returning to Oxford University to complete a doctorate in detective fiction, the house's macabre history simply means it's cheap. She never suspected the twisted passsions that led to the student's death would entwine around her own life.
A stray cat traumatized by some past act of cruelty, a hidden cache of pornography, a close neighbor's illicit love affair . . . soon Terry is drawn into a mystery more chilling than any in her fictional studies. And back in the classroom she is uncovering a secret, erotic side to academia, where moral rules are suspended and where a tragic obsession may prove deadly for the innocent . . . or for a woman seeing too clearly into a killer's dark and merciless heart.
- ISBN10 0440224985
- ISBN13 9780440224983
- Publish Date 10 August 1998 (first published 1 May 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dell Publishing Company
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 400
- Language English