Death in le Jardin

Author: Ian Moore

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Crime & mystery

Published on 6^th June 2024 by Duckworth Books (Farrago) in the United Kingdom as part of the 'A Follet Valley Mystery' series.

Hardback | 304 pages
228mm x 145mm 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.