Sprightly, aristocratic Maudie Molyneux is an eighty year old Irish charmer. She and her friend and housekeeper, "Faithless" Brigid, are all that is left of the old days at Ardnavarnha, the beautiful old house set above the sea in the green hills of Connemara.
Suddenly Shannon Keeffe arrives from New York, distraught about her millionaire father's apparent suicide. Shannon believes he was murdered and that the clue to the killer's identity lies in the past, here at Ardnavarnha.
It is up to Maudie to spin the tale of her own amusing and indiscreet past, as well as that of the impetuous and beautiful Lily Molyneux, who caused chaos in the lives of everyone she ever met and left a legacy of hate.
Lily Molyneux was a wicked woman - or was she? Was Shannon's father really murdered? And if so why? And by whom?
Maudie and Ardnavarnha gradually reveal their secrets, unravelling the intertwined mysteries of Lily Molyneux's tangled life and Shannon's father's death.
