An actress dies 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. Flora Messel had enemies and she had always been prepared to play cat and mouse to get what she wanted. When the Shepard Agency is hired to investigate La Messel's death, events conspire to entangle them in a cat's cradle of mutual disloyalties - with undercurrents of malice and distrust ...
She read English at Sheffield University. Married with two grown-up children, she taught English before taking up writing full-time. She lives with her husband near Bristol.
Her interests include art, books, auction sales and filling her house with anything old and chipped and with a story to tell. She also loves traveling both physically and mentally.