A troubled young girl is found dead in the bath at a party attended by John McLeish and Francesca Wilson.

The victim is Catriona Roberts, a pupil at the prestigious Faraday Foundation school for the musically gifted. But Catriona was not gifted. She was an outsider.

There is no shortage of suspects. Catriona’s complex relationships give McLeish plenty of leads, and he finds himself looking to the school for answers.

The Faraday Foundation is a hotbed of ongoing feuds and love trysts between staff and pupils. The deeper McLeish digs, the more scandal he unearths.

In this prestigious school of academic excellence someone also has a talent for murder. Now McLeish must use his expertise to reveal the killer — before anyone else meets their fatal end.

Fans of P.D. James, Robert Galbraith, Ngaio Marsh and Agatha Christie will devour this classic crime series full of twists.

Please note this was previously published as O Gentle Death.

***A FATAL BLOW, JANET NEEL’S FIRST WILSON AND McLEISH BOOK, WAS WINNER OF THE JOHN CREASY NEW BLOOD DAGGER 1988***