Jumping the Cracks

Move over Morse - PI Sam Falconer is tougher than ever and ready to tackle the darker side of Oxford...

Oxford: the city of dreaming spires and lofty knowledge. Or so they say. But for private investigator Sam Falconer, it seems to be a place of sin and secrets. And Sam''s better placed than most to know - she grew up in an Oxford college and now she''s back to set up a branch of her detective agency.

And as ever, cases have a way of finding Sam. Soon she has a vanished man to find, a museum display of shrunken heads to protect, and - as a near-fatal chase proves -her own skin to save. For Sam, like the Oxford antiquities she''s tracking, it seems the secrets of the past aren''t easily escaped. A taut mix of classic crime, modern noir and psychological drama, this is Blake at her very best.