Johnny Waits, rock legend, made the ultimate career move - he died at the height of his success. Carla Blue, a fast-rising young star following in his footsteps made the same fatal mistake by drowning in a swimming pool in Spain. Georgina Powers, unemployed computer journalist and Carla's closest friend, hears of the tragedy over the radio in her East London flat, and soon senses that something is wrong - especially when she stumbles across street trader Tommy Levi selling unreleased tapes of both Carla Blue and Johnny Waits. As Georgina investigates, she begins to suspect that certain music bosses predicted massive sales for their artists after their untimely deaths ...

Denise Danks is a freelance computer journalist and author of five previous Georgina Powers novels. She was the first woman to win the Fulbright / Raymond Chandler Award for the most promising writer of crime/detective fiction and was recently described by The Times as one of the six best crime writers in the UK.