The Bishop of Oxford is very, very dead. Or at least the police think it's the Bishop - it's impossible to be sure, since someone has made off with his head. Frank Sampson, a 15-year-old forensic sorcerer, has the job of finding it. But Frank has other things on his mind - like the distinct possibility that he's fallen stupidly in love with Kazia, the victim's beautiful niece, and the fact that his prickly new partner-in-crime, Marvell, wants him to solve a different mystery altogether. Frank needs to focus: this case is his last chance to convince the Board that he deserves to keep his licence, and to show the world that he isn't losing the Talent. But how many rules is he prepared to break to prove that everybody is wrong ...except him?
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Donald Hounam grew up just outside Oxford. He toyed with Medieval history at St Andrews University, and wrote a PhD thesis on apocalyptic beliefs in the early Crusades. He threw paint around at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, then found himself in Dublin where he threw more paint around and reviewed films until his flatmate set the building alight on
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