Fans of traditional mysteries will root for Fiona Figg as she navigates the treachery of London and a seemingly bucolic English country manor at a time when everything in England was changing.” -Liz Milliron, author of The Homefront Mysteries “Take a plucky sleuth, a handsome soldier, a shady stranger, add mystery and a dash of espionage, shake well, and you have Betrayal at Ravenswick. At Ravenswick a murderer is on the prowl, and it’s not just the big-game hunter who's ready to pounce. Too bad Fiona doesn’t own a Wolseley pith helmet. What sort of name is Fredrick Fredricks anyway? The War Office is convinced he’s a traitor. It keeps her from thinking about Andrew, her philandering husband.Īt Ravenswick Abbey a charming South African war correspondent has tongues wagging. This is one epic read.” – The Los Angeles Postĭesperate to get out of London and determined to help the war effort, Fiona Figg volunteers to go undercover.
“A good dose of humor while keeping the heartbreaking reality of war in the mix. What’s the best way to forget an unfaithful husband?īecome a spy for British Intelligence, of course. She has been interviewed on ABC television news, the Canadian Broadcasting Network, and various radio programs Kelly lives in Nashville with her husband and her furry family, Hurricane, Yukiyu, and Mayhem.Downton Abbey meets Agatha Christie in this entertaining series opener. Her work has been translated into seven languages, and she has published an op-ed on loving our pets in The New York Times. She is the author of thirteen scholarly books, ten anthologies, and over 100 articles, including work on campus rape, reproductive technologies, women and the media, film noir, and Alfred Hitchcock. When she’s not writing Jessica James mystery novels, Kelly Oliver is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Kelly’s Jessica James, Cowgirl Philosopher, Mystery Series moves between the Chicago area and Western Montana. And much to her parent’s surprise, she’s managed to feed and cloth herself as a professional philosopher. Competing with peers who’d come from private schools and posh families “back East,” Kelly’s working class backwoods grit has served her well.
In her own unlikely story, Kelly went from eating a steady diet of wild game shot by her dad to becoming a vegetarian while studying philosophy and pondering animal minds. On both sides, her ancestors were some of the first settlers in Northern Idaho. Her maternal grandfather was a forest ranger committed to saving the trees, and her paternal grandfather was a logger hell bent on cutting them down. Kelly grew up in the Northwest, Montana, Idaho, and Washington states. Kelly Oliver is the award winning author of The Jessica James, Cowgirl Philosopher, Mystery series, including WOLF, COYOTE, FOX, and JACKAL.
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