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    Death at the Alma Mater: A St. Just Mystery

    Written by G.M. Malliet

    Narrated by Davina Porter

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateMay 7, 2013
    ISBN9781624062858
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    Death at the Alma Mater: A St. Just Mystery
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    G.M. Malliet

    Agatha Award-winning G.M. Malliet is the acclaimed author of two traditional mystery series and a standalone novel set in England. The first entry in the DCI St. Just series, Death of a Cozy Writer, won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for Macavity and Anthony Awards. The Rev. Max Tudor series has been nominated for many awards as have several of her short stories appearing in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and The Strand. The Augusta Hawke mysteries, of which Invitation to a Killer is the second, are her first novels set in the U.S., where she and her husband now live. www.gmmalliet.com

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    • 5/5
      Excellent, humorous, highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      I found this book a very pleasant cozy mystery, just like the other 2 in the series. The plot is interesting, not too complicated, but also not extremely obvious either.The book is very readable although, at times, I found the dialog to be a little stilted. I enjoy reading about St Just and Sergeant Fear, although I think there could be less attention paid to St Just's relationship with Portia.
    • 4/5
      Fictional St. Michael's College at Cambridge would have to move up some to be called second rate. And the place is falling apart. The powers-that-be decide to stage a special weekend for some of its most illustrious (and wealthy) alumni. They're an odd lot ... and make a great suspect list when one of their number is murdered. Detective Chief Inspector Arthur St. Just of the Cambridge constabulary and Sergeant Fear are on the scene ... as is St. Just's lady love, Portia De'Ath, who's working on her thesis AND her latest mystery novel at the college. And this time, she's taking St. Just's advice to stay out of his case, although he relies on her as an unbiased observer to give her insights.Death at the Alma Mater is a straightforward police procedural, very much focused on the crime and its investigation, with cozy elements and a third-person narrator with a dry sense of humor. The way the author introduces the characters up front reminds me of Carolyn Hart's Death on Demand mysteries featuring Annie and Max Darling. And it's hard not to compare Ms. Malliet's books to the Adam Dalglelish mysteries by P.D. James -- especially when the author drops in a few references to that grand old lady of British mystery.But this series is very much the author's own. It's great fun to read, and will satisfy even the most finicky mystery reader. 04/29/2010
    • 4/5
      Very entertaining. This author can spin a yarn and the outcome is surprise. Loved it!
    • 5/5
      Malliet is good, very good. I'm a fan of British mysteries and have only recently discovered her. Her Father Max Tudor books are equally intriguing. I've read them all and am waiting for the next one!
    • 3/5
      Who would have thought a fund-raising weekend of wealthy alumni members at St Michael's college in Cambrige, England would be interrupted by the murder of one of the members? With a handful of suspects to interview and investigate backgrounds on, St Just is still faced with building a portrait of a woman who, by all accounts was a flighty glamour-puss still yearning for her lost love, while having to endure a weekend reunion with her ex-husband and the woman who who replaced her as his wife.Although a cozy mystery, there were a few surprising twists to keep this interesting and as always, St Just does a beautiful job building a case against the exposed murderer.