‘A closed community. Passionate friendships. The pressure-cooker stress of academic success… or failure. It’s no wonder that boarding schools and universities make some of the best settings for murder.
‘I’ve set two of my books in the halls of “dark academia” – takes place at Salten House, a kind of last-resort private boarding school for girls who have been kicked out of more selective institutions, or who, liketakes place at an institution at the other end of the scale – Pelham College, an imaginary college at Oxford University, described by my heroine, Hannah, as “one of the oldest and most prestigious of colleges in one of the oldest and most prestigious centres of learning in all the world.”
