A funny, warm British village murder mystery, perfect for fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club and the Reverend Richard Coles.
Alderford has been voted the best place to live in Britain, and has never once stopped mentioning it. It has bunting, a market cross and almost no criminals.
Then there is Audrey Frost. For thirty-one years she has photographed every fault in town, and reported every one of them.
On the busiest Saturday of the year, in front of four hundred people, Val Prentice tells Audrey she hopes she’s there when somebody does something about her.
Two hours later, Val finds her dead.
By teatime, nine seconds of video are all over town. The police want a word. And the only people asking the right questions are four people in high-vis vests who were never supposed to be friends.
Can they find the killer before the whole town decides it was Val?
MEET THE PAYBACK CREW
Val Prentice, sixty-one. Printed herself a council lanyard, and for six weeks was the most effective council officer in Shropshire.
Clive Bartram. Writes everything down. Corrected a magistrate after he’d been told to stop.
Terry Ellis. Took eighteen feet off a protected lime tree, at night, on his own, at fifty-six. Won’t say why.
Dani Sharpe, twenty-four. Took the front off a parking machine with a screwdriver and got hundreds of people their money back.
The worst-behaved, best-hearted amateur sleuths in Britain.
Book 1 of the Alderford Murder Mysteries. Every book is a complete mystery you can read on its own.
