Nightly surveillance up a tree is hardly Pl Jordan Lacey's idea of career development, but she's there to catch an intruder who is bent on destroying Denbury Court's beautiful hill-top garden. When the intruder's calling card is discovered to be a pair of impaled garden shears, the whole scene turns nasty and bloody. Her other case - protecting George Hill, a handsome stand-up comedian, from a female stalker - is fraught with a different danger. When Jordan accidentally unearths an international crime racket, her hero, Dl James demands that she goes into hiding. But Jordan has no intention of taking orders from him or of giving up her cases. However, fate deals a cruel blow and Jordan is left to pick up the pieces and somehow solve what has now become a personal vendetta.