ALMOST A CRIME in WASHINGTON POST

Philippia Stockley gives great notice to Penny Vincenzi's Almost a Crime in The Washington Post.

"Almost a Crime," an absolute page-turner, is cut from the usual pattern but opens in the 1990s, before the death of Princess Diana, whose presence flickers through the story. Wealthy, handsome couple Octavia and Tom Fleming are the toast of lunching London. Octavia, who has a new baby, runs a successful charity public relations company, while elegant, dark Tom ("His suits were all hand-tailored, and his shoes were handmade") is a political spin doctor. They are the couple who have it all -- one of the first in a long line of extended cliches. But soon Octavia finds a lacy vintage handkerchief in the laundry basket. Tom is having an affair.