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

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Overall I really loved this novel, with it blending together some of my favourite aspects from the crime fiction genre.

Y, personalmente, creo que los personajes han sido muy numerosos, aunque sí es cierto que cada uno tenía su papel bien definido. As mentioned, there are various mistakes, legal, forensic and medical, which should’ve been picked up by beta readers or the editor, and some rather glaring plot holes around who should’ve recognised whom, and what should’ve been obvious to the detectives much earlier on. This story immediately felt different from the others I’ve read by Lucinda Riley because it’s an unsettling, tense mystery through and through. Even though this book was set in the early 2000s the isolation of the characters, whether in the school, their houses or just Norfolk in general meant the whole story felt cut off from the semi-modern world and Jazz and the rest of her team had to rely on actual deduction rather than too much forensic technology. Speaking of covers - the one shown on GoodReads, of an isolated stone hut, while not unattractive, bears no relation to the plot!DI Jazz Hunter has quit the Metropolitan Police after the break-up of her marriage to a fellow detective, and moved to the Norfolk countryside to renovate an old cottage and contemplate her future.

Best known for her epic The Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley is not an author you associate with crime fiction. Leave the phones out and it could easily be the 1900´s, the thinking and the tone/language just don´t feel modern.Over the years, I’ve bought most of her books and only allowed myself to read a few, saving the others for later because I’ve loved what I read so far. Additional tension from bullying, allegiances, privilege, power, deception, betrayal, lies, the rumour mill and even ghost stories extend the conjecture element of this tale. To sum up, The Murders at Fleat House is an engaging mystery with an elaborate plot and a capable main lead. Este me apreció ideal ya que es su primer y único libro de misterio y creo que he acertado porque la verdad es que me ha entretenido mucho y no puedo ponerle ninguna pega.

Jazz was a great lead character and her recent divorce put her in an instantly sympathetic situation, she was really great lead to follow. When her former boss requests that she investigate the sudden death of a pupil at a posh local boarding school, she relishes the opportunity to take the lead without her annoying ex undermining her. 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. La serie de las siete hermanas no me atraía lo más mínimo, pero resulta que LR había escrito un policial, allá por el año 2006, que, por lo que sea no se atrevió a publicar.Even though at first I wasn't impressed at some point, the story gripped me, and I couldn't put it down! The romance is similarly low-key, but it’s there, and I liked that most characters got the endings they deserved. The story revolves around the death of a seventeen year old bully with a female Detective Inspector easing back into the workplace after resigning earlier in the year. Lucinda Riley was born in 1965 in Ireland and, after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first novel aged twenty-four.