The latest Lyon and Bea Wentworth adventure. Lyon Wentworth, a writer of books for children, wakes up from what he thinks is a dream in which he is pursued by a hooded monk wielding a mediaeval sword. But the dream turns to nightmare when he realises his clothes are torn and bloodstained. Worse is to come for a long-standing friend is murdered in his Winnebago camper van - secured, armour-plated, and reinforced and yet someone secured entry to this wheeled version of a locked-room mystery. Lyon and Bea, his wife, a Connecticut state senator, team up once again with long standing Police Chief Rocco Herbert to unravel a new mystery as murders shatter the tranquil small-town peace.