Cute and quick read that took me a day to finish! Okay, not so cute’s the wrong word to use when there’s a body found haha. But it was nice to go back to the Theatre group and see the changes – in the characters, in the dynamics between them. Those dynamics were interesting to see and more visible here than in the first book. There’s hierarchies and people trying to curry favours with the family ‘at top’. There was one character who would berate Character C with Character A and then in an email to character C, berate Character A. A and C didn’t like each other and are vying to be the new ‘it family’ and Character B changes her personality to fit in with both of them. All for… a bigger role in the next play.

I think Hallett really shone with these characters so I’m really hoping that her other books have characters like this again. It was a nice change from how they treated me in her first book (that I read). They changed a bit in this book – the dynamics, how they treated each other – but they still maintained most of their personalities, which I liked.

The law students were in here again and the police officer is now retired and he annoyed me. He strung them around, the end was confusing, he wasn’t helping. Not to be that person but I don’t like to be too confused by my books! I did like the crime in this and I think that the person who was involved, I’m absolving them of any accusations that they might have against them. To me they’re totally innocent.