
About the Book | |||
Anita Armstrong, once a bestselling author, is now the widowed Mrs. Grosshouse, living in impecunious obscurity in the quiet Devon countryside. Mrs. Grosshouse takes up her pen after forty years and begins a historical romance that will, she hopes,MoreAnita Armstrong, once a bestselling author, is now the widowed Mrs. Grosshouse, living in impecunious obscurity in the quiet Devon countryside. Mrs. Grosshouse takes up her pen after forty years and begins a historical romance that will, she hopes, restore her reputations and bank account. But her plans are ruined when her young secretary Judy copies the manuscript and sells it to a publisher as her own work.Judy reaps fame and fortune form her plagiarized work, but things soon turn sour when her boyfriend and co-conspirator is found naked and very dead in the Thames and when her fraud is declared publicly. But things get even worse when her own life is threatened. Who is behind these crimes? Are they acts of revenge or merely red herring to cover up a depper crime? | |||