Sophie Rivers joins the university choir, but hopes of musical harmony are dashed by appearances from beyond the grave, bribery and murder.
Sophie Rivers is studying for a degree at the University of the West Midlands. When she joins the university choir, Sophie finds that her young colleagues treat her as an honorary aunt, pouring their neuroses onto her shoulders instead turning to their tutors.
But the teaching staff have enough of their own problems – particularly when one of them makes an unexpected posthumous appearance at a prestigious post-concert reception. Then two of the students disappear...
Sophie's anxiety for her young friends, combined with her insatiable thirst for adventure, soon takes her to the heart of a world of bribery and corruption, and her life is soon in grave danger.|Taking a sabbatical, Sophie is helping out at Big Brum Bookfest, until it all starts to go wrong. First it's the phone calls and letter threatening the festival's most prestigious authors; then the Director mysteriously falls ill; then, suddenly in charge of the project, Sophie herself becomes the victim of a terrifying knowledgeable stalker.