The Vicarage Murder - Monica Noble, Bk 1 Author:Faith Martin Monica Noble: the vicar's wife with a taste for solving crimes is throwing a party to welcome the village's new residents. The guests include Margaret and her cheating husband Sean. Also on the list are a celebrity chef, an Oxford university professor, a 40-something divorcee, and the owner of a chain of gyms. — Then as the drinks ar... more »e flowing, a shotgun blast rings out. One of the guests is found dead. DCI Dury and Sergeant Jim Greer are soon on the scene and discover that the victim had many enemies. Almost all the guests harbour secrets and motives for murder. Even Monica's daughter comes under suspicion. When another villager is strangled to death nearly a week later, the stakes are raised. Can Monica help the local detectives save her daughter and solve the murders before anyone else pays the ultimate price?
Monica Noble was widowed young, leaving her to raise her feisty daughter on her own. That is, until she met and fell in love with Graham Noble, a country vicar, who enticed her to leave her high-flying job in advertising in the city and move to the Cotswold countryside. There she found bucolic life very pleasant indeed until murder started to rear its ugly head. She discovered, to everyone's surprise, that she had a flair for solving the most unholy of crimes.
First published as AN UNHOLY MESS under Faith Martin's pen name, Joyce Cato.« less