MURDER ON A WINTER AFTERNOON: Book 5

A snow-covered cottage is nestled in the hills, all ready for Christmas, but inside a body lies dead upon the floor. Melissa Craig is enjoying her first winter in the Cotswolds, taking brisk walks through the snowy fields and basking in the winter sunshine. But after the unexpected death of local writer Leonora Jewell, Melissa is asked to complete Leonora's final book. However, on her first visit to the cottage, she finds a gruesome object overlooked by the police - a metal bar covered with dried blood. Terrified, she rushes to the nearest telephone box to call the police, but by the time they reach Leonora's cottage, the murder weapon has mysteriously vanished. As Melissa does some investigating of her own, she uncovers some pretty suspicious local characters, and with the police unwilling to help, can she solve this vicious crime alone? 202pp, paperback.