Lucinda Riley sadly passed away in 2020 after a battle with cancer, but readers will be pleased to read this book that she wrote before her untimely death. It’s as good as any of her previous books, which have been multi-million copy bestsellers. Her son helped her complete the draft of the final book in the Seven Sister series Atlas: The story of Pa Salt due to be released May 2023. She had penned this book in 2006 but had never finalised the draft.

Detective Inspector Jazmine ‘Jazz’ Hunter has stepped away from her police career in London after a painful divorce with a fellow police officer who had been her husband. She is now rebuilding her life and is renovating a cottage in the country, contemplating getting serious about her art. But then she is persuaded by her old boss to take on an investigation at Fleat House, a small private boarding school in Norfolk. A student has suddenly died – is it an accident, suicide or murder?

Jazz begins investigating the tragic death with her team. The deceased, Charles Cavendish, is revealed to be a bully. Many people around him had the motive and opportunity to replace his epilepsy drugs with the aspirin that killed him.