The definition of an owl had always pleased him:a night bird of prey... sharp talons and soft plumage which permits noiseless flight. ‘I am the owl,' he would whisper to himself after he had selected his prey, ‘and night-time is my time。

There is something uneasy about the twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy, where Jean Sheridan is to he honoured along with six other members of her class. A former classmate, now a high-powered Hollywood agent, has been found drowned in her pool. She is the fifth woman in Jean"s year whose life has come to a sudden, mysterious end.

Adding to Jean"s apprehension is the anonymous fax she has just received, with its taunting reference to her daughter Lily, a child she had given up for adoption twenty years ago. No one had known or so she thought.

The reunion assembles. Despite her fears, Jean does not suspect that the murderer is among the distinguished guests. Nor that she is the intended victim.

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