Publisher's Synopsis
Literary gatherings are not Sheila Malory's cup of tea but when her old friend Dame Elizabeth Blackmore invites her to a Writer of the Year party Sheila accepts. A week later Sheila learns that Beth has died suddenly, and that she has been appointed Beth's literary executor. Among Beth's papers is an unfinished novel about a passionate love affair, which Sheila is convinced is autobiographical. Could her friend have been living a double life? And why are her children Helen and Mark behaving so strangely? Then an academic researching the novelist's life also dies suddenly, and Sheila begins to suspect that Beth's death was no accident... "Even Dame Agatha would have been proud of this one" THE IRISH TIMES
