"As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a Victorian lacemaker accused of murder. But matters turn deadly when a shot is fired during a fundraising gala, injuring Gideon Littlejohn. the man who donated the dress. Littlejohn is a cyber-security expert who lives and dresses as a Victorian gentleman, but everyone believes the real target of the attack to be a controversial politician intent on rooting out local corruption. This belief is overturned when Gideon is found dead in a pool of blood. But then the politician receives a death threat. When asked to assist in the investigation, Kate races to discover the truth as it becomes clear the killer isn't going to come quietly."--