Representing Britain at an international conference on drug smuggling, Inspector Henry Tibbett must investigate the fatal stabbing of an important conference official

Morgahna Hamilton's life is returning to normal after her husband committed suicide when she gets a tip on an old story. A shipping container that arrived in the Port of Savannah with twenty-seven dead Africans in it four months ago is rumored to have contained at least one American who was murdered. The rumor comes from anonymously rumbling police officers who were there that day. That rumor leads her to a lawyer named Thomas Conley. Who is he and what terribly dark secret is pushing him to commit a series of murders? What could be so heinous that it is pushing him to the brink of madness? Join Morgahna Hamilton as she beats down the ghosts from own recent past and confronts those thrown at her by a madman who is struggling to eliminate those from his own. Join Morgahna Hamilton as she becomes the one thing that Thomas Conley is fighting.

From the legendary mystery author of Dead Men Don’t Ski. “One of the best recent publications of the fair-play puzzle at novel length.” —The New York Times Amazingly enough, Henry Tibbett is at work. Crime tends to catch him when he’s on vacation, but this time around Henry’s at a coppers’ conference, an international effort intended to stop drug-smuggling. The conference is in Switzerland (for a Scotland Yard detective, Henry does manage to get around.) and the always sensible Emmy has come along for the parties and the chocolate. It’s a glittering whirl of attractive folks in their best early-1960s attire until one of Henry’s colleagues winds up dead and Henry, of all people, becomes Suspect No. 1. A minor but real pleasure here? The reappearance of some characters from Dead Men Don’t Ski, widening both the Tibbetts’ social circle and the circle of suspects. “A complicated and clever story, with real detection.” —The Guardian Praise for Patricia Moyes “The author who put the ‘who’ back in whodunit.” —Chicago Daily News “A new queen of crime . . . her name can be mentioned in the same breath as Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh.” —Daily Herald “An excellent detective novel in the best British tradition. Superbly handled.” —Columbus Dispatch “Intricate plots, ingenious murders, and skillfully drawn, often hilarious, characters distinguish Patricia Moyes’ writing.” —Mystery Scene

When Steve Ryder snagged his foot on the body lying beneath Lakeland's Cambridge Crag his first thought was to call the police. His second was to investigate further. His curiosity leads him on a journey which wrecks his home and his life, bringing him face-to-face with deceit and conspiracy.