The In Crowd
'Biting, glamorous and deadly' S. J. Bennett
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Publisher Description
'One of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction.' ERIN KELLY
'A total joy to read.' HARRIET TYCE
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2025
Being in is everything.
Calliope Foster is standing, Pimms in hand, under tasteful bunting at a Richmond garden party. She's here to toast her best friend's engagement.
Being out is murder.
Meanwhile, just a stone's throw away, police are pulling a body out of the river Thames. The drowning appears to be a tragic accident - but as Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp is about to discover, the death is connected to this gathering of who's who in a way that could very well spell scandal.
There may be a wedding to plan, but a dead body will unravel even the best-laid plans . . .
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ WOW . . . Fabulously plotted, excellent characters and what a twist at the end.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The book is unputdownable (just like the last). I am just annoyed at myself at how quickly I read it!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Filled with dead bodies, shocking twists and surprises, and even romance, this second book in the series is as good if not better than the first.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Detective Caius Beauchamp returns in Vassell's inventive second mystery chronicling the bad behavior of England's upper crust (after The Other Half). When a rowing team discovers a dead body floating in the Thames, it looks more like a tragic suicide than a crime. But Caius's investigation soon links the body to two seemingly unconnected cold cases: the decades-old disappearance of a teenage girl from a Cornish boarding school and the vanishing of an apparel executive who ran off with his company's pension fund and was never seen again. Caius launches inquiries into all three cases, which are complicated by the interference of a high-ranking politician with murky motives, as well as the detective's tentative romance with Callie Foster, an upscale milliner, who may be a witness to at least one of the crimes. Caius's quirky investigative partners, Matt Chung and Amy Noakes, also return, and the interplay among the three is even richer than in the previous entry. Vassell has wicked fun shifting narrators and timelines, and her satire remains sharp, but she stumbles while tying up the mystery's loose ends. Still, fans of the first book will enjoy themselves.
