Sir Robert Rannaldini the most successful but detested conductor in the world had two ambitions to seduce his ravishing nineteen-year-old stepdaughter Tabitha Campbell-Black & to put his mark on musical history by making the definitive film of Verdi's darkest opera Don Carlos As Rannaldini Tristan his charismatic French director a volatile cast & bolshy French crew gather at Rannaldini's haunted abbey for filming it is inevitable that violent feuds abandoned bonking temperamental screaming & devious plotting will ensue But although everyone wished Rannaldini dead no one actually thought the Maestro would be murdered Or that after the dreadful deed some very bizarre things would continue to occur SCORE! is Jilly Cooper's most thrilling novel to date