The Murders at Fleat House: A compelling mystery from the author of the million-copy bestselling The Seven Sisters series

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Her books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Italian Bancarella Prize, the Lovely Books Award in Germany, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award.

Jazmine (Jazz) Hunter was formerly a DI in the Met but after her husband, also a DI cheated on her she filed for divorce, handed in her resignation and fled overseas. I think if all the other stuff would have been left out it could have been a 3,5 star or 4 star book.

I guessed relatively early who the perpetrator would turn out to be, and had worked out many of the twists - some rather painfully obvious to a crime thriller junkie like me - far ahead of our intrepid DI. Now, seven months later her boss, Commissioner Norton has asked her to come back to work, to lead the investigation into the suspicious death of a school boy at a local boarding school. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

Even the reappearance of her handsome, Irish ex who wants a quick and easy result doesn't distract her from following the leads she has sniffed out. The characters are well-crafted and even the pathetic Angela Miller and the incompetent headmaster of the school evoke pity at the turn of the events that rock their respective lives. Fleat House of the St Stephen’s boarding school finds itself at the center of mayhem when a child is discovered dead in his room. Out of desperation, and knowing I had to give it a good go since it was a Netgalley e-ARC, I purchased the audiobook with one of my audible credits.Not only was there the mysteries to solve but the reader also had the problems faced by the various characters.

La trama è articolata, abbiamo vari pov, storie che sembrano non avere alcun collegamento, ma che in realtà si intersecano in una vicenda fatta di omicidi, suicidi, tradimenti, eredità, segreti, amore, famiglia, fantasmi del passato.A glance at the additional notes by the author’s son reveals that The Murders at Fleat House was left fairly unchanged, with the family opting to keep the novel as close as possible to original manuscript penned in 2006. The plot is twisty and at one point I would have loved for there to have been a family tree or list of characters, but on reflection after finishing the book, this may have been difficult to do without giving away too many connections and spoiling the mystery. The book actually reminded me strongly of the Anglian Murders series– which is set in the 70s- with both really selling it on the small town, gritty kind of crime fiction subgenre. Purtroppo l'autrice esagera con le storie di contorno, specie quella della detective, che risulta ricca di stereotipi e logorroica. As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her personal demons .