Fethering

Grant and Kim Roxby hope that their first dinner party will be a talking point. It is, when a body is discovered in the cellar. Their friend Jude and her neighbour Carol, budding amateur detectives, quickly decide to investigate.

Carole Seddon regrets her decision to join the Board of Bracketts, which is overseeing the conversion of Bracketts, an Elizabethan house into a museum. But when a skeleton and then a second body are found in the grounds, Carole is once again involved in a murder investigation.

Carole Seddon and her friend Jude find themselves in the midst of some horseplay, after stumbling upon the body of ex-equestrian at Long Bamber Stables.

Carole and Jude are faced with trying to uncover who is responsible for the murder of a Polish immigrant. Jude finds herself under suspicion when she happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Carole unbends from her usual puritanical stance sufficiently to enter a bookies. But it's all in the course of detection.

Jude's life has been turned upside-down thanks her new man, Piers Targett, who's keen to get her involved in his hobby - or obsession - of Real Tennis. But when one of Piers' friends dies on the court in suspicious circumstances, Jude finds herself caught up in the police investigation.

Having been booked to give a talk at Fethering Library, successful author Burton St Clair invites his old friend Jude to come along. What Jude hadn't been suspecting however was that the evening would end in sudden, violent death. More worrying, from Jude's point of view, is the fact that the investigating police officers seem to be convinced that she herself was responsible for the crime.