with enigmatic ex-thief Peter Fox seems to attract trouble. He's also one of the reasons her sabbatical to England has become an extended stay, although she still can't quite figure out where she stands with him.
While helping Peter sort through some acquisitions for his antique store, Grace finds a letter that hints at the existence of an undiscovered work by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shortly afterward, a representative from the Japanese businessman who sold Peter the items arrives to demand that everything be returned. As if that wasn't enough, a menacing stranger from Peter's past appears and, after making some veiled threats, is found murdered. Peter is on a very short list of suspects and Grace is dismayed to find herself wondering how well she really knows this man.
Meanwhile, Grace pursues the mystery of the Shelley poem and finds her own life in danger as she delves into the past, uncovering secrets that someone wants kept hidden. There's also the matter of the handsome detective who seems to be taking a great interest in her...but as a suspect or an innocent victim?
This is the third in a delightful mystery series featuring an unlikely sleuth and her rogue of a boyfriend. Grace is an ordinary woman thrust into extraordinary circumstances and Peter is charming and intriguing. The combination of literary mystery and murder mystery will keep readers guessing, and the romantic element adds a dash of sweetness.
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. . . .
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