Finding a dead body in the village school's lost property cupboard is bad enough, but when no-one but Sophie and her friend Ella, the school's business manager, believe that it really happened, Sophie must try to solve the mystery herself - and save the village school from closure.

An enaging exploration of the unreliability of eye-witness information, this story features all the regular players from the previous six novels in this addictive English village mystery series, as well as the laugh-out-loud comedy and gentle romantic sub-plots for which Debbie Young's novels are renowned.

Murder Lost and Found was originally intended to be the last in the series, with the cycle of seven books spanning the course of a village year from one summer to the next, but ny popular demand, a bonus eighth book is now being planned, in which Sophie will take Hector to meet her parents in Scotland - where they become immersed in a Highland mystery revolving around a Scottish secondhand bookshop.