The Wykehamist

Alexandra Strnad
Publisher(s): The Black Spring Press Group

Bright, handsome, erudite, and charming, Lucian glides without apparent effort through Winchester, Cambridge, and The City. When this life begins to unravel, following his arrest in Hong Kong, Clementine, a Cambridge contemporary, and now a journalist, cannot resist the urge to rediscover the man with whom she was once obsessed.

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A latter-day Crime and Punishment, The Wykehamist explores the motivations behind a vicious murder, on a journey which meanders through the May balls and parties of Cambridge, to the glass towers and neon lights of London, and Hong Kong.

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Alexandra Strnad’s debut crime novel is part of the Black Spring Crime Series, endorsed by UK crime fiction giants, Ian Rankin and Lee Child.

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‘The novel is a page turner. We wish to know why Lucien did what he did. We are desperate to understand Clementine’s unspeakable infatuation for Lucien. The ‘madness’ of the characters dovetails with the irresistible momentum of the plot. The reader flips through page after page as compulsively as Lucien mercilessly flicks his fingers at his victims one after another.’

– Chloe Leung, Hong Kong Review of Books