IN CROWD

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel 2025. Being in is everything. Calliope Foster is standing, Pimms in hand, under tasteful bunting at a Richmond garden party. She's here to toast her best friend's engagement. Being out is murder. Meanwhile, just a stone's throw away, police are pulling a body out of the River Thames. The drowning appears to be a tragic accident, but as Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp is about to discover, the death is connected to this gathering of who's who in a way that could very well spell scandal. The victim it seems has enemies in high places. Did being on the wrong side of them get her killed? Meanwhile, the beautiful milliner Calliope Foster, immaculate in buttermilk linen, is toasting her dearest friend Harriet Simpson-Bamber. They have a wedding to organise, but a dead body will unravel even the best-laid plans. A bit witty and energetic new novel. 424 page paperback.