When Clarence Butcher drops dead at the village fete from an extremely unusual poison, the finger of suspicion points squarely at Hatterton Crow's newest resident, Jackie Teague, and dark and terrible events from the past begin to surface - events that everyone in the village of Hatterton Crow, it seems, covered up more than four decades earlier.

But Gretchen Wythers, assistant at The Great Beyond funeral home, cannot bring herself to believe in Jackie's guilt - not Jackie, who has thrown herself into village life and who makes the most delectable and scrumptious cakes; surely not Jackie, who has befriended almost every soul in the village?

After all, why would Jackie go to so much trouble to make friends, if she's just going to go and murder them all?

But decades of lies, gossip and suspicion stand between Gretchen and the truth of the mystery - the truth that could clear Jackie's name.

A cozy murder mystery set in the odd and sightly disturbing English village of Hatterton Crow.

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