Sophie Rivers, inner-city college lecturer and amateur singer, has a satisfying life in Birmingham: a job she enjoys, a close circle of friends. Then, suddenly, things go badly wrong. One of her students is murdered on college premises; worse still, her best friend George meets a tragic end on the site of the newly built Music Centre.
Everyone believes his death was an accident – everyone except Sophie. Determined to find his killer, she starts asking questions. And soon she knows they must be the right questions, because now someone is trying to murder her...|Sophie Rivers, inner-city lecturer, has a satisfying life in Birmingham, until things go badly wrong. Her student is murdered on college premises, and her best friend is killed on the site of the newly built Music Centre. Everyone but Sophie believes it was an accident. And when someone tries to murder her, she knows she's on the right track.