Book description
Badger's Drift - a tranquil English village, home to Miss Emily
Simpson, a kindly, well-liked spinster. But when poor Miss Simpson takes
a gentle stroll in the woods near her home one day and sees something
among the trees that she was never meant to see, her peaceful existence
is brought to an abrupt end. To most, Miss Simpson's death looks natural
enough, but her old friend Miss Lucy Bellringer is unconvinced and calls
on Chief Inspector Barnaby for help. Sure enough, as he investigates, a
previously unseen seamy side to Badger's Drift is revealed - one where
old rivalries, old loves and new scandals are rife. And then there's a
second, horrifically gruesome killing... Dubbed by the Sunday Times
as, 'Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' and by the
Yorkshire Post as 'the most underrated British crime writer', Caroline
Graham is the author of seven Inspector Barnaby novels.
