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

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To preserve Lucinda Riley’s original manuscript, when her son Harry Whittaker chose to publish The Murders at Fleat House this year, he applied the briefest of editing. Quizá este libro le sirvió para coger práctica y soltura a la hora de escribir sus posteriores historias. Reunited with her loyal sergeant, she enters the closed world of the school and begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Charlie Cavendish's tragic death. Leave the phones out and it could easily be the 1900´s, the thinking and the tone/language just don´t feel modern. On top of the school setting leant into the much beloved academia subgenre, which again I absolutely loved.

Detective Inspector Jazmine ‘Jazz’ Hunter is requested to investigate and so her resignation is temporarily suspended and the leads reveal more puzzling facts. Closing the door quietly and switching on the light, the figure was aware almost immediately of the ingrained, musty smell of unwashed socks, sweat and raging hormones which had, over the years, permeated every nook and cranny of Fleat House. It was a trait which served her well; her Seven Sisters series is grandstanding fiction with an epic, cosmological gloss whilst her standalone novels possess an irresistible romantic sweep.The protagonist, DI Jazmine (Jazz) Hunter was an interesting, compelling character – not my favourite female detective by any means – but I enjoyed her POV, and cared about what happened to her. 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. 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.

It’s also about 100 pages too long for a thriller - if you took out all the mentions of coffee - characters thinking about it, offering it, making it, and drinking it, you’d be halfway there, and there was also an unnecessary and uninteresting illness in the protagonists family that went on too long. Aunque no cumple todos los requisitos para ser un “cozy mistery” ya que la investigadora pertenece a la policía y aunque hay amor, la dosis es muy leve, para mi encaja en este término.As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her personal demons . 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.