Cat's Cradle

An actress dies with shocking suddenness while preparing to tread the boards at the famous Theatre Royal in Bath. Her ex-lover insists that she was murdered. And perhaps he was right. Bitchy and manipulative, Flora Messel had enemies and she had always been prepared to play cat and mouse to get what she wanted...

Widow Elizabeth Blair runs a patchwork quilt shop, but has a second job as a partner in the detective agency run by her lively young colleague, Max Shepard. When the Shepard Agency is hired to investigate La Messel's death, events conspire to get them entangled in a cat's cradle of mutual disloyalties – with undercurrents of malice and distrust...