Flowers of Evil

It was all very well for brilliant textile designer Richard Galliant to appear half-drunk at minor public functions, but turning up bombed to meet the Princess of Wales—and trying to embrace her—is a faux pas that makes international news.Garden designer Celia Grant, immersed in a costly transformation of the Galliant garden for a very social party, is fascinated by such behavior in a man who has never been known to be a lush. The more she sees and hears—of Galliant’s haughty third wife, of his troubled and mischievous children, of the inner workings of Richard Galliant and Company, with its stock now plummeting in consequence of Galliant’s bizarre behavior—the closer she comes to the dangerous truth.For behind Galliant’s appearance of wealth and social success lies a situation ripe for murder and revenge…(Publisher’s description)