The Poison Tree

Strong, Tony

ISBN 10: 0385408722 / ISBN 13: 9780385408721

Published by Doubleday, 1997

About this Item

Black Hardcover. First Edition First Impression. Spine ends Very lightly rubbed at extremities, else fine. 331 pages all in fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition, Spine ends slightly creased at the extremities, else fine. Not Price Clipped. In the wake of a failed marriage and a misguided love affair, feisty academic Terry Williams moves to Oxford to resume her abandoned doctorate in detective fiction. But her new home, a terraced house on quiet Osney Island, was previously the scene of a savage sexual murder, and Terry soon finds the past returning to invade the present with horrific consequences.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Poison Tree
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385408722
• ISBN 13: 9780385408721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition First Impression
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

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.

Review

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.