THE LAST PIECE OF CAKE: Thoroughly Inconvenient Deaths

Victor Crane is turning seventy. His son Aubrey has organised everything, the colour-coded folder, the guest biographies, the Victoria sponge, the contingency plans. Aldermere Hall is dressed for Christmas. The list has forty-three items.Mrs Margaret Brierly, event manager, has managed seven private houses across the Cotswolds for twenty-two years. She has a clipboard, a second section for things that require noting, and the specific quality of someone who pays attention to dust patterns, eggnog quantities, and the way a man looks at another man across a birthday dinner table.The weekend contains twelve guests, three murders, one detective sergeant, and an excessive quantity of eggnog that she warned them about in October.It also contains Lady Harriet Pembrook, who is in the window seat with a book she is not reading.Between them, the event will be adequately covered.The Last Piece of Cake is the sixth book in the Thoroughly Inconvenient Deaths series, cosy mysteries set in the English countryside, where the villages are charming, the body count is unreasonable, and the list always gets finished.

Pagina's: 351, Paperback, Independently published