When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pund, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job