MYSTERY AT APPLE TREE COTTAGE: An Eve Mallow Mystery Book 2

Obituary writer and amateur sleuth Eve Mallow is enjoying life in sleepy Saxford St Peter until a mysterious murder lands right at her door. Eve was relishing the gentle pace of the village until a new arrival stirs everyone up. Ashton Foley is back - a teenage tearaway turned interior designer to the stars, he's mad, bad and dangerous to know, but charming too, as Eve herself can testify, and every house in Saxford opens its doors to him. So when he's found murdered in the woods near his mother's home, Apple Tree Cottage, there's no shortage of suspects. A jealous husband? A spurned lover? Or has someone from his past life caught up with him? The police soon hit on a simple solution and arrest his mother's partner Howard. Ashton has always hated him, as he bears all the marks of a recent fight, but his mother, miles away in New Zealand, is convinced Howard is innocent, and enlists Eve's help to prove it. But there's just one problem. Eve saw Howard sniffing around Apple Tree Cottage on the morning of the murder, and she's fairly sure he's guilty, too. 286pp, paperback.