Oxford Blood
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 13 Jan 2026
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- 10,99 €
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- Pre-Order
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
The first in a series of compelling and skillful dark academic thrillers from a brilliant new voice in YA fiction.
Love, Lies, Legacy…
Eva has one dream: to study English at Oxford University. Not only will she receive a world-class education – getting into Oxford is a path to freedom.
But when Eva and her best friend George are invited to interview week, they find themselves in the cutthroat ultra-competitive world of elite academia, and at the center of gossip on anonymous student forum Oxford Slays. When Eva finds George dead near the steps of a statue in the college, she knows he’s been murdered – but all eyes are now on her. Can she clear her name, catch the true killer and win her place at Beecham College?
Eva has one week to prove her innocence, and Oxford Slays will be watching.
Oxford Blood is a riveting murder mystery thriller, packed with narrative twists and turns, complex and appealing characters and a captivating, authentic setting in its searing examination of the true cost of privilege.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Davis-Featherstone (I Am Not a Prince) explores different types of discrimination at play within college application processes in this dark academia thriller set against the backdrop of a fictional institution. The night after 17-year-old Eva Dawkins arrives at Oxford University's Beecham College for interview week, her best friend (and semi-official boyfriend), George, is found dead at the base of a controversial statue commemorating Oxford alum Sir H.C. Glanville, a known enslaver. Though George's death is initially declared a dare gone wrong, Eva suspects foul play. And when his autopsy confirms he was murdered—and Eva's alibi doesn't check out—she's added to the list of suspects. To clear her name and find justice for George, Eva investigates the other students interviewing for Beecham, including George's former childhood bestie Seb and scholarship student Lily. Simultaneously, Eva must complete her own interviews, which are complicated by rumors about her private life and the resurgence of an exclusive gentlemen's society for affluent students. Satisfying and briskly paced action enlivens the novel's smooth plotting, which ferries somewhat cursory examinations of privilege and its intersection with class, gender, and race. Eva and Lily are described as mixed-race; other characters cue as white. Ages 13–up.
