A vicious murder is committed, but who has blood on their hands?
On a hot summer's afternoon, Michelle Wentworth
Thursday Next, literary detective & newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, & it will do almost anything to achieve this
- but bribing the Chrono Guard? Is that possible? Having barely caught her breath after The Eyre Affair, Thursday must battle corrupt politicians, try to save the world from extinction, & help the Neanderthals to species self-determination. Mastadon migrations, journeys into Just William, a chance meeting with the Flopsy Bunnies, & violent life-&-death struggles in the summer sales are all part of a greater plan.