In the summer of 1915, the violent death of a young girl brings grief and notoriety to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs.    

The charming first novel in a new comic crime series, from one of Britain's most-loved writers, the incomparable Lynne Truss.  

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation s first female deputy sheriffs.