In Cat's delicatessen, Isabel Dalhousie meets a woman with whom she had been at school. This woman, Bea Shand, is known as an enthusiastic match-maker. She is very worried, though, as she has introduced a woman she knows to a plastic surgeon who is now described by another friend as a gold-digger. Isabel starts to make enquiries. The latest novel in Alexander McCall Smith's much-loved Isabel Dalhousie series.