Death of a Diplomat Author Forename:Eliza

Death of a Diplomat Author Forename:ElizaThe Canadian embassy are visiting a remote Icelandic island and the great and the good have gathered to welcome them. But beneath the glamour, tensions are bubbling. When the deputy Canadian ambassador is poisoned at dinner, suspicion falls on everyone present, but particularly on the ambassador himself. Jane, the ambassador's wife, knows that she has to solve the murder if she is to save her husband and her marriage. But Jane knows better than anyone

So she makes a bargain with Ida - six months to try and stop her taking her own life

does anyone have this week's spellings

But then a librarian unexpectedly stops showing up to work

They're looking forward to investigating the crime

keeping them safe

Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement

in new translations

the worst criminals hide in plain sight and the devil has all the best tunes

before the hatch can be opened

in which she discusses her approach to writing and her fellow writers in the Detection Club

she starts to fear that the conferences he travels the country to attend might be a cover for something far more sinister

bringing both horror and resolution to the victims' families