A Seed Of Doubt

Roz Fenwick came home to Little Hazeling for a quiet life. She got a body in a trench instead.

Freshly divorced, newly unemployed, and back at her late aunt's cottage after twenty years away, former journalist Roz Fenwick wants nothing more than to grow a decent runner bean and be left alone. Then a fellow allotment holder turns up dead in the drainage trench he'd been digging for two weeks - and the official verdict of a tragic accident doesn't sit right with the one instinct Roz never quite managed to retire.

Something has been buried beneath the Hazeling Road Allotments for eighty years, and the closer Roz gets to it - with only a scruffy terrier named Biscuit, a jam-making neighbor with a nose for gossip, and a police detective who keeps warning her off for company - the clearer it becomes that whoever silenced the truth once is prepared to do it again.

A Seed of Doubt is Book One in the Hazeling Road Mysteries: a bloodless, warmhearted English village mystery for readers who like their crimes gentle, their gardens overgrown, and their neighbors just a little too interested in each other's business.

Perfect for readers who love:

Cozy English village mysteries
Amateur sleuth series with a strong sense of place
Quiet settings hiding decades-old secrets