It was supposed to a frivolous night out. The champagne was flowing, the rugs were arranged, and the Agatha Christie Book Club had settled in to watch their favourite mystery Evil Under the Sun on the moonlit screen above.
Yet it all comes to a crashing halt when a woman’s lifeless body is discovered lying between the jumble of picnic baskets and blankets. She has been strangled and discarded like an empty champagne bottle.
How did no one see the killer lurking?
How did no one hear the victim’s cries?
And how could the Agatha Christie Book Club have been lounging just metres away and missed the whole event?!
In their latest and most complex puzzle yet, the book club friends unite to solve the unlikeliest of crimes, one that takes place in a public park, with scores of witnesses and not a single motive or suspect in sight.
When the local detectives fail to progress the case, the book club friends do what they do best, channelling their inner-Miss Marple to help out. What eventuates is a battle of wits—and wills—between the NSW Homicide Squad and our nosey amateur sleuths, with newcomer Detective Inspector Liam Jackson caught firmly in the middle.
Will the amateur detectives solve the crime first? Do the experts beat them to the punch? And how soon will they discover that the key to it all lies deep within an Agatha Christie novel?
This was supposed to be a night to remember, and it was, just not for the reasons they hoped! The Agatha Christie Book Club have decided to go to one of the open air film nights, this means a picnic and sitting, lying on rugs and watching the film (with a pause at a suitable point), the decided to go as the showing on this night is Evil Under The Sun.
Both Anders and Alicia have taken partners to the showing (but with Alicia's being a homicide detective it was not long before he was called away for work), everything seems to be going smoothly (apart from a very uptight religious family and a couple that seemed to think that with everyone watching the film they could have "fun" on and under their rug!) and then the end of the film comes and there is a dead body no more that 10 feet away from the Club.
Now the members need to figure out who could have killed the lady and why, because the police are stumped!
Crafts and Life 
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