Dr. Grace Hollister's mother just doesn't understand what is wrong. Why does Grace want to live over 5000 miles away from home? Why won't Grace take her work seriously and write her next book about a worthy female poet of the Romantic period? What is wrong with a nice, stable policeman for a boyfriend, who has never spent time in a Turkish prison?

Grace Hollister is trying to tie up loose ends in LA and get back to her cozy English village and sexy boyfriend, Peter Fox, when the bodies start dropping. Things start to get fishy when Grace and Peter and the man creating the script from Grace's first book are charged by a speeding Datsun. The script writer is killed, but who was the real target? Was this the second attempt on Peter's life in as many days? (You'll note the first attempt wasn't considered fishy.) Grace is tagged to finish the script but she and Peter decide to return to England and a sense of normality, or at least what Grace can define as normal. One phone call shatters that illusion—the movie is following them to Innisdale to be filmed on location!

Fans of Elizabeth Peter's Vicky Bliss series will enjoy the antics and characters both on and off the movie set, as well as the historical information related to female poets of the Romatic era "not even listed as minor poets." I was disappointed not to learn more of the ladies mentioned, but understand from the author's website that there is more to come on that subject. Inspired, I was pleasantly surprised when I looked up the works of Letty Landon, Sara Coleridge, Caroline Lamb and the Countess of Blessington to find the source of the "mad, bad and dangerous to know" quotation. In this series you have to wonder whether it refers to Grace or Peter.