Splash of Red

Everyone loved Chloe Fontaine. Tiny and exquisitely pretty her fragile looks hid a considerable talent as a novelist. Yes everyone loved Chloe or had loved her; there had been a series of admirers lovers and husbands ever since her arrival in literary London. Her friends sometimes remarked on the odd contrast of her disorderly private life and the careful formality of her work but it hardly seemed to matter when even the critics adored her.A Splash of Red centers around the strange and sudden disappearance of Chloe Fontaine which leaves Jemima Shore in charge of Chloes new London flat. Readers who enjoyed the earlier Jemima Shore mysteries Quiet as a Nun set in a Catholic convent and The Wild Island set in the Scottish Highlands will recognize and enjoy the same qualities of excitement and suspense in A Splash of Red a sinister story of what happened in a modern penthouse in Bloomsbury one hot summer.