The author of the book ‘A Bitter Remedy’ is Alis Hawkins. ‘A Bitter Remedy’ is the 1st book in ‘The Oxford Mysteries’ series. The story is set in Victorian Oxford, 1881, it starts with an undergraduate found dead at his lodgings. The death of Rhiannon ‘Non’ Vaughan, she is a young Welsh polymath and Basil Rice and a Jesus catches the attention of her college classmates. It falls under genres like Mystery, Historical Fiction, Crime and Thriller.