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Written by Anthea Fraser. Jan Coverdale had been living in Australia quite ahppily until the day her husband left her and her three children for a much younger woman. So she accepts an invitation from her stpbrother Edward to spend the Christmas holidays at their old family home. Unfortunately, tranquility is the last thing she gets. The day after her brother goes off to Peru - leaving her, she suspects, to guard the house - a corpse is found with Edward's identification on it. It's not Edward who is dead, much to Jan's relief. But someone wants Edward blamed. Their father had been something of a celebrity: in the fifties he had discovered a major Inca ruin in Peru. And after two more grisly murders, Jan feels that perhaps all those sinister stories about the lost treasures of the Incas might be true - at least someone believes them enough to kill for ...Anthea Fraser has written many novesl, and she continues to publish new titles. The Nine Bright Shiners is the fifth novel in the popular David Webb series.