The October Cabaret

Inheriting a small antique shop from her uncle, Tess Pennicott moves to Brighton to run it herself. She soon encounters her first love, Ben Wyland, but cannot believe he still feels the same way about her. Finding a photograph of porcelain, taken in the shop, Ben recognises it as a famous piece of Sèvres and hugely valuable, but it is missing. Tracing this lead takes Tess to Prague and into grave danger. British Mystery/Romantic Suspense by Nancy Buckingham writing as Erica Quest; originally published by Doubleday for The Crime Club