Author: Malliet, G.M.

St. Michael's College, Cambridge, is prestigious, stately-and in frightful disrepair.

To replenish its dwindling coffers, the College's Master holds a fundraising weekend for wealthy alums.

But all goes awry when the glamorous-and despised-Lexy Laurant is found strangled on the grounds.

There's a lengthy list of likely suspects: Lexy's debt-ridden Latino lover, her titled ex-husband who left her for another woman, and a garrulous oil-rich Texan with something to hide, among others.

As Detective Chief Inspector St. Just weighs clashing egos, he discovers unsavory secrets . . . and a most shocking twist.