The Cherry Blossom Corpse — Robert Barnard

ROMANCE IS MURDER
Passionate, inflamed, searing -- the vocabulary of the trade. But the words also described the irritation felt by Scotland Yard's Perry Trethowan when he was persuaded to attend the World Association of Romantic Novelists' convention in Norway. And it certainly wasn't love in the chilly Nordic air when the world's most famous purveyors of pounding hearts got together: it was jealousy, backbiting... and homicide. The aging but amorous queen of romance, Amanda Fairchild, had arranged a romantic tryst by the fjord only to find herself in a fatal tete-a-tete with a killer. Now the dauntless Trethowan had to discover the author whose desire was no affair of the heart ...but a more sinister matter of murder.