The Cruellest Month, Paperback

When Sheila Malory's godson Tony finds Ms. Richmond, a librarian in Oxford's New Bodleian library, crushed under collapsed bookshelves, Mrs. Malory probes the victim's past in search of answers. Could Gwen, who had many enemies, have been murdered for blackmail? Holt's civilized and tantalizing mystery explores both modern Oxford and rural wartime England. Book 2 in Holt's Mrs. Malory series.