From the Back Cover:
The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage. Among the first-class passengers on board are two English confidence tricksters, making a discreet exit from a little awkwardness they have left behind them in the United States. A chance meting on deck brings them a tempting new target in the shape of Miss Charnwood and her niece, the beautiful Diana, only child of the immensely wealthy Fabian Charnwood.

It's a trick they've pulled before, with some success. Charm the daughter into an engagement to marry, then get the father to buy you off. So confident are they of success, in fact, that they make a pact: whichever of them wins Diana Charnwood's love will share his fortune with the other. Who would imagine that these smooth operators would let their hearts rule their heads? Or that violent death would find its way into their neat little scheme? Or that they would stumble into something much darker and deeper than either had suspected?

Another excellent read from the brilliant Robert Goddard.

Thanks! This is a new crime writer for me to read!

I thought this was a real page-turner, although I did get frustrated that the main character kept trusting people who you just knew were going to betray him! A shall definitely look out for any other Robert Goddard books.

I shall be sending this to the Summer Sweepstake winner- enjoy!

I'm being swamped with books from generous bookcrossers and it's wonderful - although my poor bemused postie may not agree :-)

Thank you very much Pennywhistler.

Goddard is a new author for me so this book is going on my TBR pile (which is growing rapidly) before I release it elsewhere.
Thank you again :-)

Oops, I found this as I was clearing out my bookshelves. I did read and enjoy it some time ago but never made a journal entry - so sorry.
Now it needs passing on so I'm hoping to release it in the near future.

Wild released at bus stop, Shalesmoor, Sheffield this morning.