Veronica Stallwood is the author of a series of novels set in Oxford and featuring Kate Ivory,

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ist and often reluctant sleuth. Kate uses her skills in historical

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to good effect in investigating events from the past on which several of the plots turn. Stallwood is also the author of two non-series novels. Stallwood was born in

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and lived in

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and

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as a teenager. She moved from Belgium to

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

where she worked for a publisher and as a cataloguer in the

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and elsewhere, moving later to the village of

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, north-west of Oxford.

Bibliography

* ''Deathspell'' (1992) * ''Death and The Oxford Box'' (1993) * ''Oxford Exit'' (1994) * ''Oxford Mourning'' (1995) * ''Oxford Fall'' (1996) * ''Oxford Knot'' (1998) * ''Oxford Blue'' (1998) * ''Oxford Shift'' (1999) * ''The Rainbow Sign'' (1999) * ''Oxford Shadows'' (2000) * ''Oxford Double'' (2001) * ''Oxford Proof'' (2002) * ''Oxford Remains'' (2004) * ''Oxford Letters'' (2005) * ''Oxford Menace'' (2007) * ''Oxford Ransom'' (2011)

References

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