A Blue Ribbon for Murder: Thoroughly Inconvenient Deaths
Barton Sutton's village fete has never known a scandal like this one.
Lady Harriet Pembrook is back home expecting nothing more taxing than a hard-fought Best Chutney rosette and a scone worthy of its blue ribbon. Instead she finds Felicity Bramwell, the fete's reigning Baking & Preserves champion and the most publicly adored woman in the village, dead among her own prize-winning preserves.
The obvious suspect is Marjorie Loach, whose chutney has spent years playing runner-up to Felicity's, and whose temper has been famously short this particular week. But Harriet has learned, over the course of rather too many of these investigations, that the obvious answer is very rarely the correct one.
As she digs beneath thirty years of church-hall smiles and village gossip, and one antique locket nobody can quite explain, Harriet begins to suspect that Felicity Bramwell was not nearly as beloved, nor as innocent, as Barton Sutton believed, and that somebody in this close, comfortable village has been keeping a very old, very dangerous secret indeed.
With her husband Gerald losing steadily at the crossword, her housekeeper Elsie dispensing wisdom over the ironing, and her long-suffering gardener Briggs finally willing to discuss the hydrangeas, Harriet must untangle thirty years of buried history before the wrong person pays for it. Again.
A Blue Ribbon for Murder is the tenth instalment in the Thoroughly Inconvenient Deaths series, in which Lady Harriet Pembrook proves once more that nothing ruins a village fete quite like a body in the marquee.
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