Imogen Quy–rhymes with why–is the witty, compassionate, and relentlessly inquisitive college nurse at St. Agatha’s College, Cambridge University. Unfortunately, St. Agatha’s has seen better days: Its financial affairs are in shambles, and the school is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.
That is, until billionaire financier and St. Agatha’s College alum Sir Julius Farran decides to pay his alma mater a visit. Things are looking up for St. Agatha’s….but when Sir Julius suddenly dies in questionable circumstances, St. Agatha’s is in danger of closing forever. A nurse is a natural receiver of confidences, and Imogen soon learns that Sir Julius had far more enemies than friends. Her curiosity is initially piqued, but soon turns to alarm when Julius’s equally unpleasant son-in-law is found murdered. The case takes on particular urgency because Imogen’s former flame, Andrew Duncombe, had been working as Sir Julius’s right-hand man. Imogen must work what out really happened before Andrew is implicated in the murders–or becomes the next victim.
In her first case in more than a decade, Imogen Quy calls upon her clear thinking and insight into human nature to seek not only truth but justice. Readers will delight in the return of this “exemplary amateur sleuth” (Publishers Weekly) from a brilliant novelist in the best tradition of Dorothy L. Sayers and Josephine Tey.
Debts of Dishonor: An Imogen Quy Mystery
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Well-crafted, yet lacking On the plus side, Debts of Dishonor is well-researched; incorporating the stock market, high finance, outsourcing and the financial pickle a lot of institutions find themselves in these days. It’s excellently crafted, with subtle clues and red herrings planted along the way for the reader to remember once the solution is revealed.On the minus side, it’s peculiarly passionless. Imogen Quy shows up everywhere, somehow inspiring highly personal confidences from everyone she meets and…
beautifully written, bafflingly boring This is one of the best-written mysteries of the year, of, perhaps, several years. The narration and the dialogue are both exquisitely crafted, a real pleasure to read. Jill Paton Walsh’s earlier novel, A Piece of Justice, is a very clever book and both of Walsh’s Wimsy/Vane novels are good, so I leapt to read this one with high hopes.It’s boring.Sadly, the main character is more than (less than?) boring: she’s annoyingly boring. In A Piece of Justice, Imogen’s…