Mistletoe and Murder: Robin Stevens (Puffin 2016)
A Murder Most Unladylike/Wells and Wong mysteryAs alluded to at the end of the previous book in the series, ‘Jolly Foul Play’, Hazel and Daisy go to Cambridge for Christmas, meeting all the members of the Junior Pinkerton society. Inevitably, they come across a mystery or two and it’s no surprise ( Read more... )

Tam Lin: Pamela Dean, Firebird, 2006.

I had known of this book for a while - I read more fantasy novels than I discuss here - and leaped at the opportunity to get this reprint, ( Read more... )

Death on the Cherwell: Mavis Doriel Hay, 2014, The British Library

Four female undergraduate students from Persephone College, Oxford University, are in the process of setting up a secret society. Its main purpose is ( Read more... )

The Scholarship Girl at Cambridge: Josephine Elder Girls Gone By Publishers 2012

In this sequel to The Scholarship Girl, (I wrote about it in passing here) we ( Read more... )