At Timmins & Ross publishing house Samantha Clair knows she can rely on her star author Breda McManus to deliver a nice fat slab of a manuscript that will sell to the masses and pay her salary.

But when Breda's latest endeavour is a complete catastrophe, it turns out to be only the first of Sam's problems. When Sam decides to publish fashion journalist Kit Lovell's tell-all book on the death of Rodrigo Aleman, a designer at the prestigious Vernet fashion house, little does she know the dangerous trouble it will cause.

Before it even goes to print. A series of unrelated and disastrous events suddenly start to make sense as Sam's nine-to-five life is turned upside down and propelled into a criminal investigation. Somebody out there doesn't want Kit's scandalous manuscript published and they'll do anything to stop it.

 

Judith Flanders was born in 1959. After university, Judith returned to London and began working as an editor for various publishing houses. After this 17-year misstep, she began to write and in 2001 her first book, A Circle of Sisters, the biography of four Victorian sisters, was published to great acclaim, and nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. In 2003, The Victorian House received widespread praise, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards History Book of the Year. In 2006, Consuming Passions was published. Her book, The Invention of Murder, was shortlisted for the 2011 CWA Non-Fiction Dagger. Her most recent book, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London, was published in 2012.

Judith also contributes articles, features and reviews for a number of newspapers and magazines. He home on the web can be found at http://www.judithflanders.co.uk/