Freshly promoted to detective inspector, Alicia Friend is yet to unleash her quirky (sometimes irritating) personality on a murder case. That is until her former roommate calls with a plea to insert herself into an investigation. A high school teacher has been murdered in an English countryside mansion. By one of six people - all of whom might want this troubled individual dead. Struggling to assert her true, perky persona in an unfamiliar senior role, Detective Inspector Alicia Friend embarks on a new phase in her life by attempting to solve an ingenious murder and fix a friendship damaged by recent changes in her life. is A. D. Davies's take on a traditional British locked room murder mystery that serves as a stand-alone quick read for fans of the genre, as well as TV shows like and . For regular readers of Alicia Friend's investigations, is number five, a novella approximately one-third the length of a regular installment. The Alicia Friend series: (novella)