<p>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: <i>money</i>.<br><br>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.<br><br>Now nothing is as it seems - and in this darker world below, anything can be done by anyone. Even murder...<br><br><b>''The best woman crime writer since Sayers, Christie, Allingham and Marsh'' <i>- SUNDAY TIMES</i></b></p>