Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
Just wondered if anyone else has read this. Don't want to spoil the ending, but she brilliantly leads the reader down blind alleys.
Joanne Harris has always been good at descriptive prose, bringing in the sensory, but she's always had quite a "nice" image as a writer. However, her last couple of novels have introduced the darker side of humanity.
I love a good murder, and this has a few - just what you need when your school is being OFFSTEDed: a vengeful murderer on the loose!
There are multiple narrators, in the Faulkneresque style; the chapter headings don't name the narrators so you have to work it out from the voice - surprisingly easy to do when you write as well as Harris.
Anyone who is interested in writing prose fiction should read AT LEAST one of Joanne Harris' novels, and I can also recommend her short stories.