The Poison Tree

Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual toning to the pages) SIGNED hardcover first edition - London:: Doubleday,, (1997). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual toning to the pages). First printing. The author's first novel, set in Oxford, where Terry Williams has returned, after her divorce, to finish her doctorate in detective fiction - but the house which she purchases was the scene of a horrifying murder and she finds herself swept up in events tied to that murder. SIGNED on the title page. 331 pp.

Sex, murder, and academics are the strange bedfellows in The Poison Tree, a first novel by Tony Strong. Set in Oxford, where protagonist Terry Williams has come to get a doctorate in detective fiction, the story revolves around crimes committed before Terry's arrival, namely a horrifying murder that occurred in the very house into which she has moved. Soon history seems to be repeating itself: poison-pen letters start arriving, a murderous stalker roams the streets, and Terry begins to uncover the ugly secrets that lie just beneath the surface of Oxford's seemingly idyllic environment.