Book description
For one of Innisdale's residents, a priceless
sonnet means poetic license to kill. . . .
Grace Hollister's stay in England's picturesque Lake District has
proven doubly fruitful -- the American literary scholar just sold her
first book, and her romance with charming antiques dealer and ex-jewel
thief Peter Fox has begun a new chapter. Sorting through a hoard of
papers found in an old farmhouse, Grace and Peter discover an old
letter that refers to a lost Shelley sonnet, "Sate the
Sphinx." Before Grace can start tracking down this poetic
treasure, though, Peter's shady past rears its head -- a particularly
ugly head, belonging to a menacing Turk who's eager to see Peter dead.
But there's plenty more trouble in store. Suddenly Grace and Peter
are suspects in a murder investigation, and someone has tried his
level best to kill her -- not once, but twice. The hieroglyphics are
on the wall: unless Grace can unravel an inscrutable riddle and
unearth the villain amid a cache of likely suspects, her story might
be at an end. . . .
Diana Killian is the author of High Rhymes and
Misdemeanors (available from Pocket Books). She also wrote The
Art of Dying and Murder in Pastel under the pseudonym
Colin Dunne. She is coeditor of the anthology Down These
Wicked Streets, and the founder of the Wicked Company writers'
community for mystery and crime writers. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
Visit her website at www. girl-detective. net.
