"And Then He Smiled" is a story about murder. It's also a story of love, romance, and compassion sprinkled with a heavy dose of selfishness, greed, tragedy, and death. The story begins when Electra, a young woman named after one of the stars in the Pleiades, is poisoned. The detectives trying to find her killer must determine what is real and what is not. You, as the reader, go along with them on their journey towards the truth, sometimes puzzled and sometimes enlightened, but thoroughly entertained every step of the way.