The first novel in the Lindsay Gordon series - a gripping and thrilling page-turner, starring a self-proclaimed ‘cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist' - from the number one bestseller Val McDermid.

Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls’ public school? But when the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string minutes before she is due on stage, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious murder.