Antonia Fraser

Quiet as a Nun is a thriller novel, written by Antonia Fraser. First published in 1977, it features Fraser's sleuthing heroine Jemima Shore as she revisits the convent where she was schooled following the mysterious death of one of the nuns. A six part television dramatisation of the book was featured as part of ITV's …

Oxford Blood is a crime novel by Antonia Fraser first published in 1985. The novel begins with reporter Jemima Shore making a television documentary at Oxford University. Most prominent among the undergraduates is Lord Saffron, a wealthy, twenty-year-old heir to a former Foreign Secretary. Soon she discovers that …