  Framed  tells the story of a young American woman, who is an academic at Oxford University. She is at odds with the established system and finds refuge writing crime stories in which she imagines herself to be the glamorous femme fatale. Her world changes when the characters from her fiction appear to come to life and she is arrested for a serious crime. This dual narrative thriller set in London and Oxford blurs the distinction between fiction and reality as our heroine begins to question everyone and everything around her.