When a chilling discovery is made in one of the manor's greenhouses, the Frog End villagers rely on the Colonel to reluctantly solve another baffling mystery.
Following the untimely death of her mother, Ursula Swynford, Ruth Harvey has taken over the manor in Frog End, where she runs a successful plant-selling business and provides gardening therapy for an increasing number of her husband Dr Tom Harvey's troubled patients: embittered Lawrence Deacon, lonely Joyce Reed, widowed Tanya Carberry and wheelchair-bound Johnny Turner, the young victim of a horrific motorbike crash.
Gardening at the manor quickly becomes a much-needed lifeline for the group, and all seems to be going well - until the major stumbles across a body among the tomato plants in one of the greenhouses. Once again, the manor is the scene of a brutal murder - and, once again, the Colonel reluctantly finds himself drawn into solving the mystery.
Margaret Mayhew was born in London and her earliest childhood memories were of the Blitz. She began writing in her mid-thirties and had her first book published in 1976. She is married to American aviation author Philip Kaplan and lives in Gloucestershire.
Title: The Lifeline: 6 (The Village mysteries, 6)
Author: Mayhew, Margaret
ISBN: 9781780296890
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Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2021-03-31
Number of Pages: 192
Weight: 0.2586 kg
A delightful British cozy, exuding warmth and charm along with the inevitable murder most foul * Booklist *
Crime and clues enhance this village charmer * Kirkus Reviews *
As cozy as a mug of hot chocolate and a roaring fire * Booklist on Bitter Poison *
A gentle and pleasantly entertaining village cozy * Booklist on The Seventh Link *
Even out of his element, the Colonel shows wit and tenacity tackling a problem with no easy solution * Kirkus Reviews on The Seventh Link *
Enjoyable, heartwarming cozy ... A winning read * Booklist on Dry Bones *