The Only Way is Poison

Most villages bury the past. Speckled Hill forgot where they left it.Chelsea Earl's at the church to lay her husband and his father to rest in the family plot. The mourners are assembled. The widow has the urn.Nobody's dug the hole.So a village in mourning stands about in the heat, waiting on a gravedigger and his spade, watching the turf and each other.Before the morning's out, the blade hits something that shouldn't be down there.PC Todd Prodd tells Chloe Essex to stay out of it. More than once.She fully intends to listen.For at least an hour.Because somebody in Speckled Hill's been counting on that plot staying exactly as it was.The Only Way is Poison is book four of the Chloe Essex Cozy Mysteries, a humorous British village series with a fair-play puzzle, decades of tidy amnesia and a grave with one occupant too many.Welcome back to Speckled Hill, where yesterday's secrets have a habit of becoming today's gossip.Readers who enjoy Richard Osman, M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin will feel right at home.