Hotel group magnate Philip Marston's much younger bride Diane Smith makes a fatal fall from her suite after texting to him she "can't live with herself", apparently because of a British press article denouncing her bastard child when a teenager. Jack refuses to close the case he commissioner insists, convinced her interrupted manicure means a staged suicide. Philip's children all disliked a stepmother. Son Stephen might have to give up his luxury life as 'hotel tester', possibly conspiring with study buddy Oliver Fitzwarren whom he engaged as manager of the home hotel and bribing a hotel maid. Eldest sister Karen engaged Diane as HR manager but feared becoming her subordinate, kid sister Pearl might no longer be permitted to live as pampered parasite. Jack still has to work out an MO as all seem to have alibis, none opportunity, so what didn't happen as it appears?
—KGF Vissers