Meet Flora Steele - bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, daydreamer and amateur detective!
Sussex, 1955: When bookshop owner Flora Steele goes for a walk along the pier she isn''t expecting to spot a young woman''s body in the stormy waters below. And she''s shocked to discover the victim is someone she knows...
Convinced the death was not an accident, Flora persuades attractive local crime writer Jack Carrington to help her find out what really happened to poor Polly Dakers, a popular young woman with a complicated love life, who''d been at the heart of village life in Abbeymead.
Jack is reluctant to get involved in another murder case at first but even he can''t deny that Polly''s fall seems fishy. An argument at a party, a missed hairdresser''s appointm
