Welcome to St Nonnatus Primary School  where the headmistress is dead, the circumstances are suspicious, there are only four viable suspects and as every parent knows, being on the school group chat can be murder.

There is so much promise with the premise of this story and as soon as I saw it was described as the mixed media style of Janice Hallett meeting the humour of Richard Osman in a primary school setting I knew I needed to read it. Unfortunately it didn't live up to my expectations. It really was fun to start with but felt too long for the plot so once I got to half way I started to get frustrated that the story was being stretched so much to fill the page count. There were also too many characters who had very light characterisations (predominantly stereotypes of the kinds of people you find in a typical UK playground) which all felt quite superfluous for me.

Despite this I did enjoy the humour, the mixed media use and the premise overall and it really is a quick read overall, I just wish it had been shorter and tighter in its character use and plot.

Thank you to Netgalley and Headline for this digital review copy of "That'll Teach Her" in exchange for my honest and voluntary review.