Hate Bale

Grumbling guests and escaping piglets are precisely what Martha doesn't need. She's already struggling to run a holiday cottage and a rather large smallholding single-handedly. Since her husband Mark died, three years ago, her rural property in France, beautiful as it is, has become an increasingly heavy millstone around her neck.So whilst she's horrified to stumble across a corpse at the local farm supplies shop, it does at least distract her from her own woes. Best friend Lottie swoops in to offer moral support, and encourages Martha to join her in some unofficial sleuthing. Meanwhile, police officer Philippe Prudhomme, a former fellow chess-player of Mark's, undertakes a rather more professional investigation.However, the killer remains at large. And when more bodies (one and a bit, to be precise) come Martha's way, it definitely feels like he's closing in on her…There's suspense, humour and excitement in this entertaining cosy mystery set in the French countryside. I'm an English ex-pat living in France with my family and a lot of animals, including llamas and carp. I was a bestselling author in Ireland, where we lived for 15 years before we moved to our new home here. I've recently relaunched my writing career, but this time as an indie ebook author and publisher. It's the twenty-first century after all!