Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional / Women Sleuths / Amateur Sleuth
From New York Times bestselling author Katarina Bivald comes a charming, bookish mystery that transports readers to an English village whose residents see a recent murder as an opportunity to attract tourists to their struggling community by organizing an annual murder and book festival
Author Berit Gardner has just moved to a cottage in a worn and run-down village in Cornwall. Berit immediately realizes that the village is full of interesting people and stories, and she soon begins to make herself at home.
That is, until a man is suddenly blown up during a tea party shortly after she arrives.
Soon Berit starts snooping around on the case. Her aim is to both help police with the strange and mysterious villagers, as well as gain ideas for her new book. But the villagers themselves see the murder as an opportunity rather than a tragedy, as they come up with the brilliant idea of using it to attract tourists to Great Diddling, by organizing an annual murder and book festival.
