How to Cheat Your Own Death

Annie Adams arrives in London expecting gallery chatter with her artist mother and instead finds a young woman dead in an alley behind the studio, her heart cut from her chest. The killing feels horribly familiar because Annie has read it before, in the 1968 journals of her late great-aunt Frances, who fell under the spell of magnetic Soho socialite Vera Huntington and watched her die exactly the same way. Now threats are gathering around Annie's mother, and the past seems to be repeating itself stroke for stroke. To save Laura, Annie must trace Frances's steps through smoky clubs and glittering parties to the secret that got Vera killed, while her own mother sits squarely in the killer's sights.