Murder in the Countryside
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley September 4, 2024
Author Helena Dixon
Distributor: Amazon UK
ISBN: 978-1837900589
Publisher: Bookouture
Release Date: September 2024
Website: https://www.amazon.co.uk
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Book 17 in the Miss Underhay Mystery series.
Kitty Bryant has been enjoying a treasured day off, along with a delicious lunch with her friend Alice and is now on her way home, via Wassail Farm where she intends to refill their stone cider jugs with some very delicious cider. Bertie is in the backseat of her red Morris Tourer, the roof is down and life is very good indeed.
Arriving at the farm, there is no one around but she sees a table loaded with Jugs, jam and punnets of blackberries. It is very quiet, a bit too quiet, so she goes to investigate and to her absolute horror finds the body of a man, killed with his cider press; there is only one thing it can possibly be and that is Murder.
Murder in Countryside sees both Kitty and her husband Matt rubbing up against Inspector Lewis again, a man on his way up the Policing ladder and none to keen to discover he is going to be working with them again, as they try and unearth the killer.
It turns out the dead man is Titus Blake, a man who is disliked far and wide for his difficult and often cruel nature and because of this, rather than one or two suspects, the list of possible suspects grows rapidly, making this case one where anyone, family or neighbour, appear to have had a good reason to do Titus Blake harm.
Out of all the suspects, who is it that hated Titus so much they would stoop to murder, makes a fascinating puzzle to be solved and as Kitty and Matt discover to their immense frustration, no one person is able to be ruled out categorically, which is terribly frustrating.
When another murder is committed for no apparent reason, it becomes a matter of urgency to find the killer before he or she kills again.
Murder in the Countryside, the seventeenth book in the Miss Underhay Mystery series, is another excellent cozy Murder Mystery from the pen of Helena Dixon, which will keep the light on and the pages turning as Kitty and Matt slowly put the pieces of the puzzle together to discover a very clever killer.