Dee Gascoigne’s life is a mess. Her marriage is over, she’s lost her job, and now she’s recovering from a nasty bout of bronchitis. Her family send her off to stay with an old friend in a small village by the sea. A change of scene and a spot of relaxation should be just what Dee needs as she ponders her future.

But even in a tiny place like Porthlea, malice and danger lurk. Dee quickly discovers there’s nothing like a murder to take her mind off her problems. The local police are not interested, but nothing can stop Dee asking questions. After all, she comes from a long line of nosy women!

The Miss Gascoigne mysteries are a series of traditional mysteries set in Britain in the ‘Swinging 60s’ and featuring Diana ‘Dee’ Gascoigne as an amateur detective who stumbles over dead bodies almost as often as your average dog-walker. Between jobs and with a penchant for solving a mystery, she is aided and abetted by her brother Rob, studying to be a barrister, who helps her to pit her wits against the ‘official’ team of investigators, which sometimes includes her ‘kind-of cousin’, Inspector Bill Hardy, and his sidekick, Sergeant Nahum ‘Nat’ Porter.

Praise for A Meeting With Murder and A Wreath of Lilies:

‘Every character becomes someone you know, someone you grow to like or dislike as Allan draws you in, not as a spectator, but as a participator. An outsider who becomes so enthralled with the events as they unfold that you actually can not help but want to try and solve this plot before anyone else does. Mystery, intrigue, suspense, romance, and nostalgia. This book has it all!’

‘another great cosy mystery which we’re so used to with this author… the description of the town and characters was so vivid it was like I was part of the community’

‘Set in the 60s, the novel is rich in period detail with fabulous descriptions of the homes and the clothing, and a great ‘ear’ for the dialogue of the time… A cracking book, peopled with memorable characters’

‘Good read, I liked it! I also liked that the story was a continuation of a beloved series. Its new for me to read a book set in the swinging sixties’

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