Sophie Rivers Books
Sophie Rivers, English lecturer and amateur singer has a good life and friends to share it with, then suddenly things go badly wrong. One of her students is stabbed to death on the college premises and worse still, her best friend, George, appears to suffer a tragic accident.
It looks as if Sophie has fallen on her feet when she changes jobs and moves to George Muntz College. However, when a colleague is found dead, she realizes that there is more to the Birmingham college than meets the eye..
Rock musician Andy Rivers has hordes of adoring fans and campaigns for one good cause after another. So why would anyone want him dead? It begins harmlessly enough: mild vandalism, funeral flowers left on the bonnet of his car, but suddenly it becomes clear that Andy's persecutor is deadly serious.
When a young teacher dies, victim of a series of arson attacks at William Murdock College of Further Education, another teacher is attacked, and a women's safe hostel is razed to the ground, Sophie Rivers has more than school politics on her mind. Could these events be connected to the group of muggers she witnessed in action, or the fundamentalist students? Meanwhile Sophie's love life is no less complex as three men vie for her attention. But when the murderer targets Sophie, she's on her own...
Sophie Rivers is finally on vacation after a gruelling season of teaching in a deprived inner-city college, and has just started seeing Mike Lowden. When he becomes the prime suspect in a murder of a not-so-popular rival cricketer, Sophie's got too much to lose to remain merely a spectator.
On a year's sabbatical from her teaching job, Sophie Rivers is enjoying a stint as a volunteer for the Big Brum Bookfest - a new literary festival promising to cast Hay and Edinburgh into the shade. But someone is determined to sabotage the Bookfest. First it's the phone calls and letters threatening the festival's authors; then the Director succumbs to a mysterious illness; then, suddenly in charge of the project, Sophie herself becomes the victim of a vicious and terrifyingly knowledgeable stalker. Sophie never could resist a mystery and it's not long before she's calling on old friend Superintendent Chris Groom to find out as much as she can about the case. But when the stalker turns murderer it's clear she's in way over her head...
With her husband away on an England cricket tour of Pakistan, and the deadline for her MEd dissertation looming on the horizon, Sophie Rivers is in no mood for unwelcome distractions. Unfortunately, as a member of the university choir, she is finding it nigh on impossible to avoid them. It soon becomes apparent that the music faculty of the University of the West Midlands has more than its fair share of nutty professors and insecure students - and for some reason Sophie seems to have been appointed their unofficial guidance counsellor. But when the body of a professor turns up at a concert at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, all this fades into insignificance. Sophie's old friend, DI Chris Groom, calls on her insider knowledge to find out who - and what's - behind the killing.
