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State secrets, betrayal, spy games, female friendship and even culinary recipes. The novel is set in the period after the end of the Second World War. Edith Graham works as a German teacher, but she is looking for adventure. At this time, the British government creates the Control Commission, which hires Britons to work in Germany to rebuild the destroyed nation and expose the crimes of war. A schoolteacher answers the call.

After interviewing Edith, the Commission decides that she is the perfect candidate to work on a different level and become a spy: she is single, has an unremarkable appearance and speaks German. There is one more interesting thing: Edith knows one of the most wanted war criminals, Count Kurt von Stabenow, with whom she travelled to England a few years ago.

Edith travels to Germany, where she helps rebuild primary schools and becomes a spy. To pass on secret information, she uses columns in culinary magazines written on behalf of the famous cookbook author Stella Snelling. And the further she goes in this case, the more interesting details are revealed: not everything is really as she was convinced, in particular about Count Stabenov.