To all appearances Joanna Emerson is a fully qualified, gold-medalled graduate of the world’s finest college of Nursery Nurses…

Engaged as a nanny to Benedict, newly born heir to a vast cosmetic fortune, she becomes caught up in a complex kidnap plot. But the enigmatic portrait painter, yachtsman and former spy, Johnson Johnson is never far away – and he knows the dangerous game she’s playing.

Before long, bullets are flying, and most of them in Joanna’s direction.

PRAISE FOR THE DOLLY MYSTERY SERIES

‘The Dolly novels are… delicious, funny, ingenious, glamorous, clever’ Listener

‘Dunnett tempts her fans with buried clues and red herrings that keep them reading and rereading the books’ New York Times

‘[Dunnett’s] women are among her strongest characters’ Guardian

Dorothy Dunnett (1923-2001) is the celebrated author of the Dolly books (aka the Johnson Johnson series). She was a trustee of the National Library of Scotland, and a board member of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. In 1992 she was awarded an OBE for her services to literature.