After the events of Magpie Murders Susan Ryeland has been living in Crete with her lover Andreas, running a struggling hotel.
She is approached by Lawrence and Pauline Treherne, owners of a hotel in England, because she was the editor of deceased mystery author Alan Conway. Conway used the details of a murder that occurred at the Treherne’s hotel eight years ago in one of his mystery novels, Atticus Pünd Takes the Case.
The Treherne’s daughter Cecily had just recently read the book and called her parents telling them that the book proves that the person in jail for murder is innocent.
Shortly after that phone call Cecily disappears.
The Trehernes offer Susan ten thousand pounds to come back to England, stay at their hotel, and use any insight she might have gotten through editing the book to help track down Cecily.
Susan, needing the money to help with the struggling hotel, agrees and heads back to England to help.
Anthony Horowitz, OBE is ranked alongside Enid Blyton and Mark A. Cooper as "The most original and best spy-kids authors of the century." (New York Times). Anthony has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he is also the writer and creator of award winning detective series Foyle’s War, and more recently event drama Collision, among his other television works he has written episodes for Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. Anthony became patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices in 2009.