High Life brings us back to Rilton Castle, a small village in Dorset, England, where the community often struggles with crimes and other disasters. The Ash family, Mike and Tom and the twins, Finn and Patrick help as best they can when a mysterious firestarter called the 'Homeless' starts burning holiday cottages and second homes as a protest against housing prices.At the same time, Chief Inspector Regina Muga and her team have to deal with drug dealers moving down from London and causing mayhem in the local area, using teenagers to distribute drugs and taking on the local drug baron.All the usual characters are back in this eighth book in the Gemini and Flowers Mysteries series, including a couple of old faces, Harvey Stroll, MP and Spud Wallace, school bully turned dealer.