Back in the USA, Maggie Bloom knows none of this. She is so undone at the sight of her ex-husband and his young, bouncy bimbo, she is dangerously close to finding toothpaste in her hair and her underwear on the outside of her clothes. In the interest of improved mental health, she lets her oldest friend talk her into an extended visit to Bonn.

Her hopes for a healing hiatus are dashed when she finds a dead neighbor in the goldfish pond of her rented house. The police accuse her of murder. She has no family, few close friends and a wobbly grasp of the language. She tries Xanax and when that fails, she goes on the lam. For one terrifying weeken Maggie manages to elude the persistent police inspector and discover the truth. As she hunts for the murderer, she outwits a bunch of skinheads, foils a bomb plot and traps her neighbor's killer

This is the first book in the Maggie Bloom series-the prequel to A Yacht To Die For, A String of Perils and Just Buried.