**As the stage is set for a local village play in a beautiful countryside manor, Melissa Craig plays the role of detective once again when one of the cast is mysteriously murdered… ** **Melissa** is delighted when she’s asked to help put on a play at her favourite local Cotswolds hotel. There’s nothing she loves more than getting to know the cast, who are just as colourful behind the scenes as they are on stage. Rehearsals are running smoothly until **the perpetually grumpy supporting actor is found spread-eagled at the bottom of a steep flight of stairs **leading to a cellar. As Melissa tries in vain to save his life, she is sure she can hear voices nearby and suspects there is more to this accident than meets the eye. Why on earth was he trying to get down to the hotel’s private cellar? And why does the hotel manager seem so angry about it? When the hotel floor plans deliver some unexpected revelations, Melissa is convinced that she’s dealing with a murder. **But when all of your suspects are actors, how can you tell the good liars from the bad? Can Melissa find the killer before the final curtain falls? ** **If you’ve devoured books by Agatha Christie, Faith Martin and P.D. James, you won’t be able to resist this page-turning murder mystery! ** This book was previously published as *Exhaustive Enquiries*.

When the body of a woman is found in a skip with a knife in her back, Detective Constable Sukey Reynolds will have to use all her wits to bring the killer to justiceWhen the body of pretty Fenella Tremaine is found in a skip with a distinctive oriental-patterned knife in her back, Sukey faces some big questions: which of Fenella's enemies hated her enough to kill her... and why? Could it be professional rivalry, or her promise to testify against a local residential home that's the key to solving the crime? Sukey will have to use all her wits and her contacts—including dishy journalist Harry Matthews—if she and her colleagues are to bring the killer to justice.

The death of a music lover at a house party sparks a complex investigation for Detective Constable Sukey Reynolds and her colleaguesLance Rainbird isn't one for social chit-chat, so when he fails to turn up for the evening programme of music after dinner at Justin Freeman's annual musical weekend at Dallington Manor Hotel, it invites remark but no real concern. It's a lovely evening; perhaps he stepped out for some air. But the truth of the matter is rather more serious: Lance is found in the lake, drowned.Constable Sukey Reynolds and her colleague Detective Sergeant Vicky Armstrong are part of the police investigation, and at first all signs point to it being a terrible accident. But the doctor reveals Lance was hit on the head before he died. Could it be murder after all? Then there is another accident, and Sukey finds herself caught up in a complex investigation that grows more complicated – and deadly – with each passing day . . .