A winter's murder Julie Wassmer Constable FF Paperback 2024

A winter's murder Julie Wassmer Constable FF Paperback 2024Halloween in the beautiful county of Midsomer finds itself overshadowed by a trick or treat that takes a nasty turn. Sara McLower answers the door, and finds her life ended by a pumpkin. When villagers gather a few weeks later for her funeral, there's an understandable sense of unease. Still, there's the festive lights switch on to look forward to at The Windy Dog pub, overseen as always by longstanding landlady Betty Grainger. But when she flicks the

an evil night when anything could happen

Osira must reckon with all she has ever been told and confront the insidious cruelties of inheritance

A plan that will backfire spectacularly

but has deadly implications for the future

And in the wings waits Hans Falck

Now the former policeman has no choice but to travel to Port de Pollenca

compromising the upriver dams that control the Vezere that flows through St Denis

from an English marsh haunted by a mother and her son to a country house where a grieving widower finds comfort from a most unlikely source

but Carrie

It's a brutal crime at the time of year when there should be goodwill to all

When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie leave the clamour of London for a dream retirement on the seclusion of Dartmoor

except Julie