An idyllic cruise, a longed-for holiday to the Greek Islands, a carefully planned school reunion...

In her first-ever collection of short fiction, including several pieces as yet unseen in print and a new Patrick Grant story, Margaret Yorke provides a virtuoso display of her ability to extract fear and evil from everyday situations. Effortlessly evoking the years of pent-up pain of an unhappy marriage, of a grudge borne since childhood, a sin committed years ago, she draws each story to its inexorable conclusion as Nemesis must surely strike again...

Contents:

• The Liberator
• It's Never Too Late
• Always Rather a Prig
• I Don't Believe in Santa Claus
• The Reckoning
• Such a Gentleman
• A Time for Indulgence
• Fair and Square
• The Fig Tree
• A Woman of Taste
• Mountain Fever
• The Wrath of Zeus
• A Sort of Pride
• Gifts from the Bridegroom
• Anniversary
• The Mouse Will Play
• The Breasts of Aphrodite
• The Luck of the Draw
• Means to Murder
• A Small Excitement
• Widow's Might
• The Last Resort
• Greek Tragedy