It's the Fourth of July weekend at the prestigious West Heart country club.

Gathered for cocktails on the first evening are just some of the guests staying for the weekend. The club president, the treasurer and his pregnant wife, the snooping school boy, the bereaved father, the taciturn caretaker, the prospective member. And a private detective, who won't tell anyone who has hired him - or why.

We know the conventions of the crime novel. We know that someone is going to die.

But nothing about this novel is straightforward, from the mystery itself to who is actually telling us this story...