There is a moment in every case when you realize things aren't
going as planned; in this case it was being perched half-naked up an oak tree with a drop-dead sexy murder suspect a
few feet away.....
Adopted at birth, Hannah Conti's attempts to trace her family turned
up a mother convicted of murder twenty years ago. Convinced that her mother is innocent, Hannah hires Grace to prove
it.
Glad of any chance to get out of the office (the boiler's broken
and the plumber can't come until next July) Grace uncovers the story of the very messy murder of Trudy Hepburn - a science
teacher at St Martin's Comp. Along the way she's obstructed by a lot of people who'd rather she stopped digging, and
aided by an ex-copper with a shady past (and an even shadier present) and a mysterious emailer who keeps sending tantalising
clues.
To add to the complications, she'd been conned into bird-sitting
a psychotic parrot and Terry Rosco, the most chauvinistic cop in Seatoun, is homeless and keeps trying to move into her spare
room. And, oh yes - someone keeps trying to kill her.....
