This murder-mystery is set amid the struggling upper classes of Perthshire as their confortable world begins to crumble in the aftermath of the First World War.Dandy Gilver, her husband back from the Front, her children away at school and her uniform growing musty in the attic, is bored to tears in the spring of 1922 and a little light sleuthing seems like harmless fun. She decides to track down the Duffy diamonds, stolen from the Esslemonts' country house, Croys, after the Armistice Ball. Before long though, the puzzle of the missing gems is swept aside by the sudden, shocking death of lovely young Cara Duffy in a lonely seaside cottage in Galloway. Society and the law are keen to call it an accident but Dandy, along with Cara Duffy's fiance Alec, is sure that there is more to it than meets the eye.Something is being hidden by the Duffy family: the watchful Lena, the cold and distant Clemence and old Gregory Duffy with his air of sadness - not to mention the victim herself, beautiful Cara, whose secret always seems just tantalizingly out of reach. Dandy must learn to trust her instincts and swallow most of her scruples if she is to uncover the truth. Read Less