When Mike Wakefield's business partner absconds with their printing firm's money, Detective Inspector Sloan is tasked with what appears to be a cut-and-dry case of embezzlement. However, unsettling events - tyres slashed, bricks through windows - make it clear that someone is really gunning for Mike.

There is just one print job to put to bed in time for a lavish launch party at Ornum House. All goes according to plan until one of Mike's employees is found dead . And he wasn't the only casualty. DI Sloan and DC Crosby have

a tangled set of motives and some devious chicanery to unpick to discover a killer.

Aird is one of crime fiction's doyennes and much-loved by the crime writing community at large For readers who love the traditional crime classics of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers The long-awaited new novel by veteran author Catherine Aird picks up her long-standing series with characters Sloan and Crosby