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Fake tans. Fake smiles. One very real murder.

Former West End dancer Chloe Essex has staked everything on turning the grounds of Essex Hall into a posh business park. The family money’s gone, her father’s no longer well enough to explain where, and the launch party is three days away.

Then...

If a get-rich-quick scheme sounds too good to be true, Speckled Hill’s probably already bought into it.

Chloe Essex thought solving one murder had earned her a bit of a rest.

Clearly, she underestimated Speckled Hill.

Steve won’t take the hint, and PC Prodd keeps making her blush at inconvenient moments. She could do without the pair of them.

An...

Somebody is stealing from Speckled Hill. Unfortunately, they’re not stopping at silverware.

You’d think a string of burglaries would teach the villagers to lock their doors.

One of them knows better.

Then the church gets done over. And what’s stolen from one place turns up at the next break-in. An escaped pig makes an already strange week stranger,...

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...

One crown. Forty-eight hours. A theatre full of suspects.

It’s July. The company is staging The Nutcracker. And forty-eight hours before the centenary, the Sugar Plum Fairy’s crown has gone.

Chloe Essex has one performance left, a farewell she’s been dreading for months, and a diamond crown on loan from the most feared patron the company has.

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