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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. . . .

About The Author

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.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Gallery Books (July 13, 2010)
  • Length: 336 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781451612875

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