Lois Meade has worked through all the days of the week, turning up clues and scrubbing up messes and murderers in the village of Long Farnden. But sleuthing is rarely a spotless endeavor…
A series of robberies have begun to plague Long Farnden, and Lois’s own daughter, Josie, is shaken when a thief makes off with a hundred pounds from the till in her grocery shop. But before her policeman fiancé can crack the case, someone cracks Lois’s husband on the head when he interrupts a burglary in progress. Now Lois-and the besotted Inspector Cowgill-must determine who’s cleaning out Long Farnden, and clean up after an increasingly violent crime spree…
ISBN: 978-0-425-25177-50
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