This work tells about a schoolgirl's highly suspicious death. Unhappy at home and with her parents desperately worried by her moods and withdrawn behaviour and fearing that she might be taking drugs, sixteen year old Sophie Hammond is sent as a boarder to a coeducational private school. A talented swimmer, she appears to be settling in well with the help of the young woman who is both her coach and house mother. Found dead in her room at Sandford College with both the door and window secured, it is at first assumed that the girl has either taken her own life or died from an accidental overdose of the drugs and alcohol which are found in her room. Rawlings, the forensic pathologist, however, is convinced that she has been suffocated. Before the answers to the tragedy are found, there are two further deaths and the lives of all those involved, including the investigating police officers, are turned upside down.
- ISBN10 070908451X
- ISBN13 9780709084518
- Publish Date 28 September 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 August 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English