It's dangerous in the countryside. The 11th instalment of the Honeychurch Hall series is a fun and quirky cosy crime set in a small community in picturesque Devon, featuring shrewd amateur detective and ex-celebrity antiques dealer Kat Stanford.
It's dangerous in the countryside. The 11th instalment of the Honeychurch Hall series is a fun and quirky cosy crime set in a small community in picturesque Devon, featuring shrewd amateur detective and ex-celebrity antiques dealer Kat Stanford.
These books fill me with joy!... they are fabulous, light, funny and joyful mysteries... they entered my world and I felt a little better. NetGalley reviewer, ?????
----------When Eric Pugsley, who runs the unsightly scrapyard on the Honeychurch Hall estate, brings home his Turkish fiancee, everyone is delighted - even if the marriage does seem to include her outrageously feisty mother.A Safari Supper at the Hall is held in their honour, but trouble begins when, somewhere between the first course and dessert, one of the villagers goes missing and is later found drowned in the estate's ornamental lake.Rumours of foul play abound, given that competition is fierce to clinch a trophy at the upcoming Flower and Produce Festival, where sabotage had already come into play when someone released a herd of goats into the village allotments and one of the planned entries was eaten.But things take an even more sinister turn when Eric asks our heroine, Kat Stanford, to value the bride-to-be's 19th century Etruscan engagement ring, only to be told that historically it was used to carry poison - hardly an appropriate choice for love, but Eric is adamant it's what his fiancee wants.And then a second body is found... unearthing a hotbed of sabotage, blackmail, and old grudges.----------Praise for Hannah Dennison:'Just the thing to chase the blues away' - M. C. Beaton'The perfect classic English village mystery but with the addition of charm, wit and a thoroughly modern touch' - Rhys Bowen'Downton Abbey was yesterday. Murder at Honeychurch Hall lifts the lid on today's grand country estate in all its tarnished, scheming, inbred, deranged glory' - Catriona McPherson'Sparkles like a glass of Devon cider on a summer afternoon' - Elizabeth DuncanHannah Dennison was born and raised in Hampshire but moved to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting more than two decades ago. She has been an obituary reporter, antique dealer, private jet flight attendant and Hollywood story analyst. Hannah writes the Honeychurch Hall Mystery Series and Vicky Hill Mystery Series, both of which are set in the wilds of the English countryside. She currently divides her time between California and the West Country.
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