A total joy to read.' Harriet Tyce'Confirms Charlotte Vassell as one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction.' Erin Kelly'A stylish saga of cops and inverted snobbery.' The TimesBeing in is everything. Being out is absolute murder. A stone's throw away from a glamorous engagement party, the police are pulling a body outof the river Thames.

The drowning appears to be a tragic accident - until Detective CaiusBeauchamp gets an unexpected tip. The victim, it seems, had enemies in high places. Didbeing on the wrong side of them get her killed?Meanwhile, the beautiful milliner Calliope Foster, immaculate in buttermilk linen, is toastingher dearest friend Harriet Simpson-Bamber in a Richmond garden.

They have a wedding toorganise. But a dead body will unravel even the best-laid plans.