Goodbye, Ms Chips

Ellie Simms once dreaded hearing that the headmistress wanted her, back when she was a chubby, unruly student at St. Roberta's boarding school. Now she is a grown woman with a seaside house, a husband, and an interior design career, and she has also built a reputation for solving local crimes. When the school calls her back, the request is to look into the disappearance of the Loverly sports trophy, which someone has taken with the apparent aim of embarrassing the school.

The summons comes just after the retirement of Ms. Chips, the former games mistress. Ellie is reluctant to return to the place of her unhappy schooldays, but headmistress Mrs. Battle is persuasive, and Ellie agrees to go. Once on campus, she is pulled back into the rhythms of boarding life, with its students, staff, and old tensions.

What begins as a schoolgirl prank soon turns into something far more serious when a murder takes place.