Published by Bookouture
2 May 2024
Book 12 in the Eve Mallow series
Everyone in Saxford St Peter is delighted when jeweller Cleo Marbeck suggests a prize for the village’s best garden. But the event digs up dirt… Twenty-five years ago, a young woman fell to her death in Cleo’s house, and rumours soon resurface about Cleo’s part in the tragedy.
Eve’s best friend Viv is hosting Stevie, her son’s fiancée, ahead of the wedding. On the open garden day, Stevie has a horrible flashback: the memory of a woman lying at the bottom of a staircase. But she sees it in a totally different house from the one where Honor died…
Hours later Cleo’s body is found, drowned in her own pond. Almost everyone in Saxford has been in and out of her garden, sowing suspicion everywhere. But Eve is convinced the flashback has triggered the crime… and when the police turn their sights on Stevie, Eve will have to work fast to solve the case and save the wedding.
So who wanted Cleo in the ground? The son of the woman who died, out for revenge? Her long-term lover,
who she refused to marry? And why do so many suspects live on Meadowsweet Grove?
When someone else takes a tumble downstairs, Eve knows she’s close to grubbing up the truth. But can she catch the killer or is she heading for a fatal fall?
Clare
Chase writes classic mysteries. Her
aim is to take readers away from it all via some armchair sleuthing in
atmospheric locations. Like her heroines, Clare is fascinated by people and
what makes them tick. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in settings
as diverse as Littlehey Prison and the University of Cambridge, in her home
city. She’s lived everywhere from the house of a lord to a slug-infested flat
and finds the mid-terrace she currently occupies a good happy medium. As well
as writing, Clare loves family time, art and architecture, cooking, and of
course, reading other people’s books.
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