Dearest Enemy — Sara Woods

Leonard and Victoria Buckley are a legend of the London stage; in their forth-three married years they have played opposite each other in countless plays, and not the least of their charms is their apparently idyllic marriage. It is a shocked Antony Maitland, then, who learns that Leonard Buckley suspects his wife of trying to murder him. And when Victoria Buckley is killed on stage on the opening night of a new thriller in which she and her husband are once again both cast, the police are quick to pin the murder on the most obvious suspect: Leonard Buckley.

But the famous barrister-detective Maitland is not so sure. As his investigation winds its elegant and intricate course, culminating in a dazzling court battle, Sara Woods fans will once again take pleasure in this superb addition to the series, and readers new to Antony Maitland mysteries will have the delightful experience of meeting one of mystery fiction's most intrepid and attractive heroes. Book Dust Jacket