Claire is an English teacher at British high school that happens to be housed in an historic house once owned by a famous spooky Victorian author called R.M. Holland. Claire both teaches Holland's short stories (the most famous of which being "The Stranger," which is featured in this book as a story-with-the-story) and is working on a book about the author, so she likes working at a school with a connection to him. But then a fellow teacher turns up murdered!
This was a pretty good book, although it was a little slower moving than I would have preferred. I did like the variance of narrators; the author gives us not only Claire's perspective but that of also the lead detective on the murder case, and Claire's teenaged daughter.
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