An audio book.
Harriet, newly engaged to Indigo, doesn't want her old friend Calli (a hat-maker) to be bridesmaid because she's too pretty. Arthur, an important (gay) MP, is at her party. He doesn't get on with her father, Peter. Her mother's from a rich family.
A woman's corpse is found in the Thames - Lynn, an old lady. An alcoholic?
Caius, a policeman (34, politics degree, mixed race, a year at the Sorbonne) is stood up at a date at an alternative theatre event. The're performing "How to beer Ernest" where some of the cast are very drunk. Calli sits beside him. A man dies in the audience. He's Martin, an amateur sleuth from Cornwall who's interested in a cold case about a missing schoolgirl Eliza. One of the cast was in her class.
Arthur tells Caius that Lynn used to work at a place where her boss Robert stole the pension fund and the 2 of them went to Brazil. He wants the case investigated. Caius discovers that Peter worked for the company then.
Cali had been hoping to marry Max. Caius and Cali sleep together on their first date. She resigns from help at Harriet's wedding. Peter is her landlord. Rupert, a writer (rich cousin of Arther) starts chasing Cali.
Peter's a self-made man, having built up a fashion firm. His wife Jane might be the brains of the couple. Were they involved with the pension-fund theft? Did they kill Lynn?
Cali's dad left when she was 8. She's known Peter since about then.
The police learn from the school that the fees of Harriet and Cali were paid by Peter, and they both left a year before the girl went missing. There's a fight at Jane and Peter's house - Peter gets concussion. Cali distrusts Caius, thinking he deliberately met her and knew about her connection to the cases. Cali is Peter's daughter. Harriet isn't Peter's daughter but Robert's
Cali tries to have sex with Rupert on the bounce but he can't perform.
Henry (the 21 y.o. son of the headmistress at the time of the girl's disappearance) has been sought for questioning for a while [often a sign that they're the guilty character]. The police track him down to a remote house. Eliza is his wife. They have 5 unregistered children. He'd groomed girls at school and had imprisoned her.
Lynn had suicided. Caius is related to Arthur!
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