Second book I’m reading by this author. Set in I presume a quintessentially English village, complete with the characters including the eccentric. Here we have unusually the Heaton family detested universally, and although the main culprits are dead and gone, the animosity remains hidden but very much below the surface.
Marius our prize winning author and his sort of girlfriend the lovely Lady Isabella gets dragged into an investigation of threatening poison pen letters to three of the Heaton remaining clan. Death promised in no uncertain terms assured. Police are called in but the first murder of James happens anyway and then the second of Tilly. Scotland Yard gets roped in and no proper suspect is in place because there are a lot of red herrings.
The detection is slow, but charming. Characterisation was varied, also charming.
A sequel has to follow because I want to know where the romance is going. It’s not quite fair to leave the reader dangling!
Sent by Storm Publishing for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.