The last way antiques dealer Lina Townend wants to spend a summer’s afternoon is helping at a church fete. However the vicar is an old friend so Lina ends up selling bric-a-brac. A harmless event turns into a crisis when someone tries to steal a tatty old snuff box from under her nose. Tatty it might be but it’s valuable enough for the would-be thief to attack Griff her business partner to frame Lina for a crime she didn’t commit and to kill and old friend. And maybe other people too. Because the senior police officer in charge of the case suddenly becomes preoccupied with a personal problem Lina is forced to seek help from her one-time boyfriend DI Morris now married with a baby.

Part of the Lina Townend Series series.