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Newly returned from investigating a murder in Monkslip-super-Mare, former M15 agent Max Tudor wants nothing more than to settle back into his predictable routine as vicar of St. Edwold’s Church in the village of Nether Monkslip. But the flow of his sermon on Bathsheba is interrupted when Lady Duxter is found dead after having made a suicide pact with her lover. Lady Duxter’s husband rallies quickly from the double tragedy—too quickly, it is murmured in the village. Having already planned a writer’s retreat at his manor house, he insists the show must go on. But when a young girl goes missing and a crime writer becomes a target, DCI Cotton asks Max to lend his MI5 expertise to the investigation. Many suspects emerge as the scope of the investigation widens beyond the writers to villagers who have crossed swords with the insufferably smug crime author. Soon Max begins to wonder if the attack on the writer was part of a broader conspiracy …
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About G. M. Malliet
G. M. Malliet
is a journalist, copywriter, and award-winning author of mystery fiction. She attended
Oxford University and holds a graduate degree from the University of Cambridge.
Her first novel, Death of a Cozy Writer, was chosen by Kirkus Reviews as a Best
Book of 2008 and won the 2008 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. She now lives
in the Washington, DC, area.
About Michael Page
Michael Page has been recording audiobooks since 1984 and has over two hundred titles to his credit. He has won numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. As a professional actor, he has performed regularly since 1998 with the Peterborough Players in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He is a professor of theater at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.