The Hogg Lane Detectives

Immerse yourself in a small English village in the 1950s. The story wanders down the lanes and in and out of the kitchens of Miswell Cross, introducing the villagers: wealthy but suicidal; hard-working but judgmental; secretly gay; hard-drinking and womanising; horse-loving but snobbish; a small-time crook; a victim of an arranged marriage; and a manipulative mother, or two. But which one of them killed the newcomer to the village: wealthy widow Mrs Nora Balfour-Jones?

Your guide to Miswell Cross is Sarah Howard, who wants to be a vet when she grows up, or maybe a forensic pathologist. Her hobby is conducting postmortems on birds and other small creatures to find out how and when they died. Will any of that help, though, when the police arrest one of her friends?