March, 1896. Motherhood and work as a private detective don???t easily go hand-in-hand, but Vanessa is determined to give it a try. Being a wife and mother has meant that she??'s had to give up her beloved teaching job, but Vanessa has been kept busy by a string of requests asking for her help in...
Cambridge, 1888, Miss Vanessa Duncan is recently arrived from the countryside to teach. But everything changes when Mr Akers, a Fellow f Mathematics, is found dead. When a second and then third mathematician are murdered, it becomes a race against time to solve the case.
Vanessa Duncan's was a country girl fascinated with academia but unable to attend university, so when she moved to Cambridge, she became a schoolmistress. All appeared to be going well . . . until a man she had befriended, Arthur Weatherburn, was accused of being a serial killer. Using her powers...