Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder. She's edited two novels about the famous detective Atticus Pünd, and both times she's come close to being killed. Now she's back in England and she's been persuaded to work on a third. The new novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace, one of the world's top-selling children's authors until her death exactly twenty years ago. Eliot believes tha…
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He is being hunted, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamond, a violent mobster and a very big mistake.
"When the impossible has been eliminated the residuum, however improbable, must contain the truth."