Publisher's Synopsis
A deftly plotted mystery involving people whose relationships reach back into the past Virginia Freer is looking forward to visiting her good friends Helen and Andrew Boscott in their rambling old house in the village of Stillbeam. So she is distinctly put out when her erstwhile husband Felix turns up on the doorstep with a suitcase, still the charming and completely feckless person he has always been. That evening, both attend a party arranged to celebrate the engagement of a local poet and a best-selling historical novelist. They are shocked when the novelist's sister turns up on the doorstep, distraught with the news that she has found her sister shot dead. Virginia, Felix and the Bostcotts accompany her -- and find circumstances drastically and shockingly changed.
