Lambert & Hook discover that interrogating professional actors is an impossible business in the latest intriguing mystery.Sam Jackson is not a man who suffers fools - or anyone else - gladly.A successful British television producer who fancies himself as a Hollywood mogul, he makes enemies easily, and delights in the fact. It is no great surprise that such a man should meet a violent death.Detective Chief Superintendent Lambert and Detective Sergeant Hook deduce that the person who killed him is almost certainly to be found among the company of actors who are shooting a series of detective mysteries in rural Herefordshire.But these are people who make a living by acting out other people's fictions, people more at home with make-believe than real life - and the two detectives find interrogating them a difficult business.How can Lambert and Hook fight their way to the truth when faced with a cast of practised deceivers?