The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley – is a cliff-hanging and utterly compelling crime novel
from the author of the multimillion-selling – The Seven Sisters series.
Fleat House is a small private boarding school at St. Stephen’s in deepest Norfolk. When one of its
pupils suddenly dies, the headmaster prefers to call the incident a tragic accident. The local police,
however, take a different view and treat the case as murder.
Detective Inspector Jazmine, “Jazz” Hunter returns to the Norfolk force, keen to leave her police career
in London for personal reasons. On arrival, she is asked to front the Fleat House investigation and does
so only as a favour to her old boss.
She is, however, happy to be reunited with the loyal Sergeant Alastair Miles. As she begins her enquiries
regarding the circumstances surrounding Charlie Cavendish’s puzzling death, further events are destined
to follow another perturbing turn.
Charlie it seems was an arrogant bully. Those around him had both the motive and the opportunity to
switch the drugs he took daily to control his epilepsy.
As staff at the school become more and more reluctant to cooperate with the police, Jazz soon has two
more leads to follow when a young pupil, Rory Millar, disappears and an elderly classics master dies. Are
they, however, only going to complicate the investigation further?
As the weather closes in and snow covers the landscape, another suspect goes missing! To add to the tension, Jazz realises it is time to confront her personal demons.
Already under pressure, a particularly grim discovery at the school, makes this the most challenging
murder investigation of her career.
Fleat House hides many secrets, shades darker than even Jazz could ever have imagined . . .
Beautifully written, and seriously suspenseful, this wonderful novel is an incredible tribute to Lucinda, who is so very sadly missed by her loving family, many friends and a multitude of fans.
ISBN:9781529094954
The Murders at Fleat House is available in hardback.
About Lucinda Riley
Lucinda Riley was born in Ireland and, after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television
wrote her first book aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and
sold thirty million copies worldwide. She was a Sunday Times and New York Times number-one
bestseller.
Lucinda’s The Seven Sisters series, which tells the story of adopted sisters and is inspired by the
mythology of the famous star cluster, has become a global phenomenon. The series is a number-one
bestseller across the world and is currently in development with a major TV production company.
Though she brought up her four children mostly in Norfolk in England, in 2015 Lucinda fulfilled her dream
of buying a remote farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland, which she always felt was her spiritual home, and
indeed this was where her last five books were written. Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and
died in June 2021.
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