Jazz's gut tells her that all these incidents are connected but putting it all together is like doing a jigsaw puzzle with no picture and no edge pieces. 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. 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. To sum up, The Murders at Fleat House is an engaging mystery with an elaborate plot and a capable main lead.

I think if all the other stuff would have been left out it could have been a 3,5 star or 4 star book. The investigation that proceeds with the arrival of Jazz and Miles reveals the secrets that have connections to events in the past. As staff at the school close ranks, the disappearance of young pupil Rory Millar and the death of an elderly Classics Master provide Jazz with important leads but are destined to complicate the investigation further. Charlie Cavendish, a notorious bully, appears to be the victim of a tablet substitution, but was it accidental or intentional?

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. Made for some tense reading, knowing the murderer was likely to strike again with everyone distracted. The Murders at Fleat House is a suspenseful and utterly compelling crime novel from the author of the multimillion-selling The Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley. The Murders at Fleat House has you following every clues, guessing everyone is the murderer and cheering on Jazz and her team. This story immediately felt different from the others I’ve read by Lucinda Riley because it’s an unsettling, tense mystery through and through.

Fleat House is a small boarding school in Norfolk, England and the unexpected and tragic death of one of the school’s pupils raises serious questions. Quizá este libro le sirvió para coger práctica y soltura a la hora de escribir sus posteriores historias. Todo se va entretejiendo para llegar a la resolución sin cabos sueltos, el ritmo es ágil y los personajes no están mal. The narrator – Gemma Whelan – used an even tone which was the perfect choice, as to be honest the writing was rather wordy, old-fashioned, and somewhat droll, likely because the novel was largely unedited (more on that later). We follow a murder that happened to a boy and we get through some tangled nets, leading to a following suicide and another murder.

Si no hay raíces, el ADN extraíble es el mitocondrial, el que se hereda exclusivamente por vía materna. Sadly though this was not meant to be as the author Lucinda Riley passed away last year following a four year long battle with cancer. The romance is similarly low-key, but it’s there, and I liked that most characters got the endings they deserved.

Soon Jazz is faced with her most perplexing investigation, unaware Fleat House hides dark secrets involving the past she could not have imagined. Although, I would’ve preferred there to be less focus on her personal life, as it really took away from the central mystery and meant this book was a tad too long. The Murders at Fleat House is a suspenseful and utterly compelling crime novel from the multi-million copy global bestseller, Lucinda Riley. So che lo avete visto già tanto online e nelle librerie, ma sono qui per convincere chi come me non era interessato e ne potrebbe rimanere sorpreso, anche perché è un giallo che secondo me può essere apprezzato un po’ da tutti! I only wish there was more, but the last chapter is a pretty good indicator as to how things will go for her.

Purtroppo l'autrice esagera con le storie di contorno, specie quella della detective, che risulta ricca di stereotipi e logorroica. 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.