Scotland, 1960. When Britain's most famous crime writer falls to her death from the cliffs of a remote Highland estate, every guest at the nearby Lodge becomes a suspect. The police are baffled-until someone steps forward with quiet intuition and a sharp eye for detail.
Caroline Elms had arrived at the Lodge carrying secrets of her own. She came to recuperate and escape the weight of her past in London and not to be drawn into murder.
But as the autumn rains fall and the investigation begins, it becomes clear: someone is playing a far more dangerous game-and the truth is as twisted as the fiction on the page.