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Blue Lightning Anne Cleeves

Murder at birding institute.  Head scientist (beautiful woman).  Was it her cuckolded husband?  A jilted grad student?

Subplot:  two boys on the island are gay--upsetting family of one. 

Solution:  another scientist, years earlier, had worked with the beauty.  an affair, pregnancy, birth--but dad not told.  He marries, has child, child dies.  The couple come to work on the island.  Wife sees the son of the beauty-scientist. Boy looks just like her dead boy.  She figures it out, confronts woman, "accidentally" kills her.

Cleeve tells a good story, but this recurring "unlikely female murderer" technique is wearing thin

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