Midsomer Murders meets Murder, She Wrote, in the Muddlebay Mysteries.
Detective Sgt Flynn Moran is on secondment from the Metropolitan Police in his home town of Muddlebay, after his colleagues couldn’t take any more of his strange, literal way of working. Not long after Flynn arrives, the Mayor of Muddlebay is found to have overdosed on atropine. But was it accidental, or deliberate?Flynn teams up with his old friend Mabel Heggarty, the local librarian. She knows practically everyone in the town and pretty much everything about them, mostly gleaned from the books they read. Oh, and not forgetting that she listens from behind the stacks to what is the lifeblood of any small town – gossip. Together they investigate the murder. Was it someone wanting the Mayor’s position? And is that why a local councillor is found to be plotting to be the next incumbent?Wendy Cartmell is well known for her bestselling, Sgt Major Crane mysteries and more recently her DI Jo Wolfe supernatural crime thrillers. She’d always had an idea for a cozy mystery series bubbling away in the background and the result is this introductory novella to the Muddlebay mysteries. Look out for them in audiobook, as well as eBook and paperback.