Returning home to care for her mother, Gillian Adams expects to see little in the way of excitement in the sleepy rural campus of Stanton College, until the body of a young female student is discovered on a lonely stretch of road. "What could Janice have been doing on Dykeman's Pond Road that had upset her so much that she'd ploughed straight on to the highway under the wheels-and presumably the lights-of an oncoming semi?"; In Nora Kelly's fourth Adams mystery, Old Wounds (HarperCollins $34.99), the historian is caught in a murder investigation where her childhood friends-and enemies-are suspects. Author of Bad Chemistry, In the Shadow of King's and My Sister's Keeper, Nora Kelly lives in Cambridge and Vancouver. 0-00-232659-0

[BCBW AUTUMN 1999]