Death at the Gates

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Hurlingham House school is a high-achiever's heaven full of happy hard-working pupils. There's just the small matter of the dead body on the field... Sounds like a case for Epiphany Bloom!</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>When </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Epiphany Bloom</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'s best friend's sister </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Claire </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>is accused of trading exam papers for money Epiphany agrees to see </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Ms Peters</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> the headteacher of Claire's fiercely competitive school to provide moral support. Claire has always been a model student and is loudly protesting her innocence: surely it's all just a misunderstanding.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>But when Ms Peters hears about Epiphany's previous sleuthing exploits she enlists her help to track down the true culprit!</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Taking a job as a PE teacher Epiphany soon realises she has plenty of suspects for the exam scam mastermind. The broke young teacher with a shady past? The father willing to buy his daughter anything - including grades? The school governor desperate to keep Hurlingham House at the top of the ranks?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Then Epiphany finds one of them dead at the school fair and it becomes clear someone is taking the cut-throat culture of the school too literally - and when mysterious accidents start happening around her too it seems the killer knows she's onto them.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Can Epiphany solve the murder as well as clearing Claire's name before she becomes the next victim? This is one test she can't afford to fail...</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A charming and totally addictive cozy mystery with a hilarious and warm-hearted heroine. A must-read for fans of M.C. Beaton Lee Strauss and Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>See what readers are saying about the Epiphany Bloom Mysteries:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'</span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Wow!</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> I </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>need to get my breath back </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>after that... </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A lie down in a darkened room is also definitely required</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> to recover from the whirlwind that is amateur sleuth Epiphany Bloom </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>a real force of nature</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> by anyone's standards!... </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Moves along at a break-neck pace</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>.' </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Fiction Books Blog</em></p><p><br></p>