A Bed of Scorpions

What's an editor to do with so many demands? Do you deal with the morning's pile of manuscript submissions first? Or do you concentrate on your ex-lover whose business partner has just been found dead in their art gallery slumped over his desk with a gun in his hand? It's another day at Timmins & Ross publishing house but when sharp-tongued editor Samantha Clair's CID boyfriend is brought in to investigate Frank Compton's death her loyalties become stretched. And when one of Aidan Merriam's artists is found dead in identical circumstances Sam takes on the art world and the CID armed with nothing more than her reliable weapons: satire cynicism and a stock of irrelevant information culled from novels.