Murder: Guaranteed to ruin a perfectly good honeymoon.

When Miranda French finally emerges from a few days of connubial bliss with her new husband in an East Anglia inn, she eagerly checks out the local shop...

...and stumbles over a body. A mutilated body. The unfortunate victim was known to be a connoisseur of married women, so it's a good bet that one of the ladies' husbands is the culprit. If there's any hope of getting back to the "honey" part of her honeymoon, Randi will have to take matters into her own hands and get involved in the investigation.

Detective Chief Inspector David French, Earl of Middlebury, has a lot more on his hands than an overly helpful new wife, planted DNA and more suspects than he can comfortably count. The killer isn't done.

And sending Randi away to the safety of his estate may have been the biggest mistake of his life. She's next on the killer's hit list.