When Faith Fairchild’s friend patsy asks her to run a course of ‘Cooking For Idiots’ for the Projects Term at the nearby school, Faith’s question is why? Patsy comes clean, Daryl Martin is the target of anonymous racist attacks that are escalating and looking to turn very nasty.
So Faith volunteers, and is accepted with alacrity. Invited to meet the staff at an informal drinks gathering by the headmaster Robert Harcourt she meets the other members of the faculty and Robert’s wife, the exotic Zoe.
Faith’s cooking lessons sound great, wish she taught at my school. However, she is quickly aware of the unpleasant undertones and conducts systematic searches of the student’s quarters in an attempt to identify just who it is that is responsible for the persecution of Darryl. But before she can reach any conclusion things take a sinister turn when there is a murder.
As always a good mystery. Recommended.
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Lizzie Hayes