Season for MurderIt is with some trepiditation that Meredith Mitchell returns to the Cotswolds: the Bamford district holds memories that, to put it generously, are bittersweet, and Christmas is a difficult time to find oneself a stranger in a new area. Yet she receives a kindly welcome, in particular from her old acquaintance Chief Inspector Markby and from her new neighbour Harriet Needham, a striking redhead with whom Meredith immediately feels a certain kinship.

What's going on

and more importantly the identity of the target's female companion

By interpreting clues from drawings left by Naomi

Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry

They are all in their forties - 'the middle years

A small blip in a huge worldwide network of desire

ghosting for a crime writer called Perry Fennimore

and grows so much food that it rots on the vine

journalist

To find her

Wilberforce is initiated into a life he could never have imagined: a life rich in the promise of friendship and adventure

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War