As if it weren"t bad enough being a failed romance writer with no sex life, poor Fiona Silk has to cope with the spectacularly embarrassing demise of her old lover, the poet, Benedict Kelly. It"s exactly the sort of thing people notice in St. Aubaine, Quebec, a picturesque bilingual tourist town of two thousand. Now the police start getting nasty, the media vans stay parked on her lawn and the neighbours" tongues keep wagging in both official languages. Worse, someone"s bumping off the other suspects. Can Fiona outwit a murderer in the mood for some serious mischief?