Author: Betty Rowlands
A stylish and entertaining debut. Successful crime novelist Melissa Craig had fled London, her loverand her agent and took refuge in the Cotswolds, dreaming of undisturbed peace and the production of yet more bestsellers. When a corpse is discovered under the leaf mold in the woodlands close to her isolated cottage, professional curiosity gets the better of her judgment, and Melissa discovers that truth can be even stranger than her own fiction.