The Woman Who Knew Too Much

A mysterious note leads a struggling actress to a strange murder investigation

After two decades of striving, Celia is trired of waiting for her big acting break, and finds consolation only in a very particularspecific narcotic: mystery novels. After an afternoon binge at the sprawling Strand bookstore, she emerges with a baker’s dozen of second-hand thrillers, and returns home to wash away the pain. But iInside one of the novels she finds a real-life mystery that will prove to be the greatest she’s ever read.

She discovers On a slip of paper she findslisting nine bullet points, starting “in re the murder of the Director.” Who is the Director, why would someone want him dead, and what on earth does Dan Rather have to do with it? As Celia dives into the puzzle, she finds herself locked in a life-or-death struggle with a gang of international conspirators. These —evil men who would scare her to death if she weren’t a veteran of New York’s toughest battlefield: the audition room.