The Murders at Fleat House

Thank you GetRed PB and Bluebox Press for this gifted copy.

Lucinda Riley is just such an amazing author, and the way she develops her characters and plot are like none other. Her passing last year from cancer was such a tragic loss, so I will be savoring this last publication.

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen’s - a small English private boarding school in deepest Norfolk - is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident.

But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine ‘Jazz’ Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London but reluctantly agrees to front the investigation as a favour to her old boss.

Reunited with her loyal Sergeant, Alastair Miles, she enters the closed world of the school, and as Jazz begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Charlie Cavendish’s tragic death, events are soon to take another troubling turn.

Charlie is exposed as an arrogant bully and those around him had both motive and opportunity to switch the drugs he took daily to control his epilepsy.

As staff at the school close ranks, the disappearance of young pupil Rory Millar and the death of an elderly Classics Master provide Jazz with important leads but are destined to complicate the investigation further. As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her own personal demons…

💬 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲?