Sir Roger Parkes is a man of some influence in the West Country. When he loses touch with his youngest daughter, he has a word with the Assistant Chief Constable of the local force. It’s not a police matter, he is told, but if Sir Roger wants to pursue it privately, there is a lady who might be able to help – two of them, actually. As far as Summer Lane is concerned, she has enough problems without going into the investigations business with her next door neighbour; Mrs Emily Willows’ problems all seem to centre around the fact that her neighbour is refusing to go into the investigations business with her. They have reached, it seems, an impasse. Until, that is, Emily notices that someone has left a message on her answering machine…

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June 16, 2022
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Peter Grainger

Although I've always been a reader, I must admit that I first got into crime novels via television series such as Morse and Frost. It seemed odd initially, reading about characters that I had only watched before, and I found that I didn't always agree with what the producers and scriptwriters had done - but then I probably am one of life's disagree-ers. Having independently published three novels on Amazon's Kindle, I decided that my next project could be a crime novel of my own. In some ways it was easier to write than general fiction, the conventions of the genre making some decisions straightforward, but I still spend a lot of time…