NYTbestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with a confounding case that sees her favorite sleuths acting to save a friend wrongly accused of murder.When a detested viscount is found murdered by the banks of the Thames and Charlie Hastings becomes the prime suspect Barnaby and Penelope Adair join forces with Stokes to discover the real story behind the unexpected killing.Charlie Hastings is astonished to find himself accused of murdering Viscount Sedbury. Admittedly Charlie had two heated altercations with Sedbury in the hours preceding the mans death but as Charlie is quick to point out to Stokes and to Barnaby and Penelope there are a multitude of others in the ton who will be delighted to learn of Sedburys demise.As Penelope Barnaby and Stokes start assembling a suspect list Charlies prediction proves only too accurate. Yet the most puzzling aspect is who on earth managed to kill Sedbury.