When history teacher Craig Foster is found dead in his classroom, his young wife is devastated, and his family, friends and colleagues all shocked. The two ten-year-old students who discovered his body may be traumatised for life.
Eve Dallas of course, is more hardened to murder cases. And this is clearly a murder case - Foster’s thermos flask of hot chocolate tainted with deadly ricin. It’s Eve’s job to get a feel for all the potential suspects - and find out why someone would have done this to a man who seemed so inoffensive, so pleasant…..so innocent.
But Magdalena Powell - now there’s someone Eve can picture as a murder victim. Possibly at Eve’s own hands. An old flame of her billionaire husband Roarke, she’s turned up in New York, and she’s anything but innocent. Unfortunately, Roarke seems blind to Magdelana’s manipulation, but not blind as all to her shapely figure and flirtatious ways. Eve’s so unnerved by the situation that for once she’s finding it difficult to concentrate on her investigation. Still, she’ll have to put aside her personal heartbreak, for a while at least - because another man has just turned up dead………
