Death in le Jardin : the unputdownable new cosy murder mystery

by Moore, Ian | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 06/06/2024 by Duckworth Books (Farrago) in the United Kingdom as part of the A Follet Valley Mystery series
Hardback | 304 pages
228 x 145 x 34mm | 446g

On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it. Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about.

Then crisis hits his posh B&B when redoubtable housekeeper, Madame Tablier, is accused of murder. Even more surprisingly, it's the murder of a former fiancé, turned brother-in-law. None of which the stubborn old woman denies.

Valérie d'Orçay is having none of it and their investigation leads them to a strange tourist garden village, where backbiting, recriminations and even former colleagues provide a deadly scenario more tangled than knotweed.