Brenda's Reviews > Murder at Cleve College

It was 1958 in Sussex with the winter cold nipping everyone's fingers and toes. Jack Carrington and Flora Steele have just been married in Abbeymead, with the whole town in attendance - but their happiness was marred by the discovery of a body in a ditch on the road into Abbeymead. Jack was about to start his new job at Cleeve College in Lewes, and with Inspector Alan Ridley asking for Flora and Jack's help with the latest murder, things began to heat up.

It wasn't long before Jack realised there was a big connection between the dead body and Cleve College, plus an old orphanage in the vicinity which had closed under dubious circumstances twenty years prior. The death of Jack's predecessor made Jack uneasy, and while Flora kept the home fires burning, she continually thought about the case. Thinking she knew the answers, talking to Jack and putting their ideas together to make sense, drew danger to their sides. Would they discover the killer before they stopped Flora and Jack from talking to the police?

Murder at Cleve College is the 9th in the Flora Steele Mystery series by Merryn Allingham and it was - in my opinion - the best yet! The newly married couple thrive on mystery - Jack's a crime writer; Flora owns All's Well, the local bookstore - and this time they went the closest they've been to intense danger! This historical mystery series, set in Sussex, is one I recommend highly (but do start at the beginning)

With thanks to Bookouture via NetGalley for my digital ARC to read and review.