Character assassinations take place daily in genteel
Taviscombe, particularly between long-time residents and
upstart newcomers. But genuine bloody murder almost never
happens in the cozy English Village—until the Taviscombe
Festival. Sometime between the dulcet Madrigal and the
scrumptious buffet served at stately Kinsford Manor, the
fifty-something writer, animal lover, and amateur sleuth,
feels especially shaken by the discovery. Her knowledge
of
village animosities tells her a long list of suspects live
uncomfortably close to home. Now that the high-strung and
universally hated Adrian is dead, the pudgy wife he
flagrantly cheated on is behaving oddly, and the TV
producer whose secrets he threatened to expose seems to be
gloating. Yet it is one unexpected bit of gossip that
puts
Mrs. Malory herself in danger…as she may know too much for
a desperate killer to bear.