Trouble with Product X

<p>A beautiful Cornish coastal village is the setting for a highly sinister conspiracy involving a kidnapped baby, mysterious monks and an almost irresistible new perfume...<br> <br> <b>'Joan Aiken's triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others' <i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br> <br> Martha works for an advertising agency, filming a TV commercial on location on the stunning Cornish coast. The client is the eccentric owner of a chemicals company that has invented a new, almost irresistible perfume, and Martha is in charge of shooting the romantic ads - unfortunately starring his beautiful but highly manipulative daughter-in-law.<br> <br> Before long, Martha finds herself embroiled in the conspiracy over the perfume's true origin - to say nothing of a kidnapped baby, sinister monks, her own long-since vanished ex-husband and a series of exploding soup cans. And what of her own floundering love life...?<br> <br> 'Witty and acute ... a nice romantic thriller' <i>Punch</i></p>