Oxford exit Book

When novelist Kate Ivory is offered a special assignment by her friend at Oxford's famous Bodleian Library, she decides to accept. For the University's libraries have a serious problem: valuable books have been disappearing from their closely guarded collections. And the challenge for Kate is to find out how. But the library staff view Kate with suspicion. And there seem to be so many ways the books could have been stolen. Then she begins to hear stories of an even more alarming disappearance of the year before—that of a young librarian subsequently found murdered. Could there be a connection...? Meanwhile, someone else in Oxford is handing in disturbing essays for a creative writing class. Someone is about to confess, anonymously, to an appalling crime...