Bad Chemistry by Nora Kelly

Bad Chemistry by Nora Kelly

Canadian historian Gillian Adams finds herself back in Cambridge. She's set to enjoy that lovely city in high summer--and her romance with Scotland Yard Detective Chief Inspector Edward Gisborne, even though he's tying up a child-killing case in Lambeth. Then the death of a research fellow in the Department of Chemistry shocks both the university and the town.
Gillian is linked to the victim through old friends and to the Cambridge police through Edward. Ideally placed to investigate Wendy Fowler's murder, she turns up evidence of venomous professional rivalries and at least one clandestine liaison. Not to mention that Wendy, a volunteer at the Pregnancy Information Service, is herself pregnant.
Then a second body turns up. There is no compelling evidence to link it to Wendy, nor to the motives ascribed to the suspects in her death. As the police sift the facts, Gillian looks at the crimes from a feminist perspective, seeing that that science, contemporary mores, and more conservative traditions have produced a volatile--indeed, fatal--mixture.
Gillian Adams began her sleuthing career with In the Shadow of King's and My Sister's Keeper. Her fourth case, Old Wounds, won Canada's 1999 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. Ms. Kelly is at work on a 5th novel.

Nora Kelly grew up in New Jersey and spent summers on Cape Cod. While living in Cambridge she wrote her first Gillian Adams mystery, In the Shadow of King's (reprinted by Poisoned Pen Press, 1999).Old Wounds, her fourth, won the 1999 Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award from the Canadian Crime Writers Association. The author lives in Vancouver, BC, where she teaches part-time.

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ISBN 13	9781890208349
ISBN 10	1890208345
Title	Bad Chemistry
Author	Nora Kelly
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Poisoned Pen Press
Year published	2000-08-01
Number of pages	252
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