A few days rest is just what Dottie needs. It's not long before she makes the acquaintance of Penny Parfitt, and her attractive brother-in-law Gervase and accepts their invitation to spend a few days in the country. Quickly Dottie realises that secrets and intrigues lurk beneath the pleasant surface of their lives. A suicide years earlier casts a shadow. Was it really suicide? Dottie begins to think something sinister has taken place.

But after all this time, can she find out what really happened?

If you love a traditional, cosy mystery series set in the 1930s then why not read The Last Perfect Summer of Richard Dawlish: Dottie Manderson mysteries book 4, from Caron Allan, writer of the Dottie Manderson murder mysteries as well as the contemporary diary-based the Friendship Can Be Murder trilogy.