Sr Marie Fitzgerald leaves the bedroom in precise order, not calling attention to the murder she has just committed on orders she knows God has placed in her head. Who can stop this nurse from her vile practices at the Lexton Court Nursing Home? Lucy O'Brien, a graduate nurse at her first job, seems to think she can. WIll it cost her her life? How many others will suffer at the hands of God's disciple? How many will die before she is brought to justice?

This book is the first in a series set in the 1960's in London, England, which introduces ex-Oxford professor Neptune King who always dreamed of being a detective greater than his fictional hero, Sherlock Holmes. When Neptune's wealthy aunt dies and leaves him her fortune, he finally has a chance to realize his dream. He hires handsome blond-haired Australia hunk, Shark Bateman Johnson as his assistant and the shy green-eyed, redhead, Rachel Green as his secretary and sets out to solve any cases that come his way. These range from a strangely immobile stepmother to drug runners, murderers,...