Vanity Dies Hard

Who would have believed that Alice Whittaker''s life could change? She was thirty-seven, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life a lonely failure, she had got by with the one thing she did have: money.

Then handsome Andrew Fielding came into her life and just as suddenly her beautiful friend Nesta vanished from it, leaving behind a trail of broken questions and confused clues.

Now nothing is as it seems - and in this darker world below, anything can be done by anyone. Even murder...

''The best woman crime writer since Sayers, Christie, Allingham and Marsh'' - SUNDAY TIMES