It looks as if lecturer Sophie Rivers has fallen on her feet at George Muntz College. Her new employer offers pleasant, even lavish, facilities and state-of-the-art equipment; in fact the College seems to lack only one thing - students. Perhaps all is not as it seems, as Melina, a computer technician, may have been about to explain. For once Sophie doesn't have time to listen - and Melina ends up dead.
There's no shortage of suspects, from the elusive Principal to the dead girl's erratic colleague. Not to mention Richard Fairfax, the property tycoon who enters Sophie's life. There's certainly more to George Muntz College than meets the eye. And Sophie can't resist a mystery . . .