The House of Women Author:Alison G. Taylor Can a murdered scholar expose his killer from beyond the grave? — As a freak heat wave hits the north Wales town of Bangor, the body of scholar-poet Ned Jones is found in his stifling study--dead, it seems, of an allergy attack. But when cryptic letters are found scratched across his chest, the routine inquest becomes a murder investigation. Dete... more »ctives Michael McKenna, Dewi Prys, and Janet Evans glean little from the women whose home Ned shared--with the exception of Phoebe. At thirteen, Phoebe is imaginative, and dark, and wise beyond her years. And Phoebe insists Ned was murdered...
Others are less certain of foul play; among them Phoebe's spiteful sister and her reckless boyfriend: Ned's handsome academic protege; and a local professor as bigoted as he is prestigious. But as the police sift through Ned's dusty papers, they discover a family past rooted in the darkest corners of Welsh history. A monstrous pattern soon rears its ugly head--proving that there's a fine line separating genius from madness...« less