'A cracking example of cozy crime!' Katie Fforde Just when Sophie Sayers is starting to feel at home in the Cotswold village of Wendlebury Barrow, a fierce new vicar arrives, quickly offending her and everyone else in the close community!Vicar Neep is strict about how he expects his parishioners to behave, but banning the villagers’ Halloween celebrations is the last straw for everyone! Especially when instead, he revives the old English Guy Fawkes tradition with a bonfire piled high with sinister effigies.Sophie begins to suspect Vicar Neep is hiding secrets of his own and maybe even knows something about her own boss - the beguiling bookseller, Hector Munro!But when a body turns up buried beneath the vicar’s bonfire Sophie knows this case is much hotter than she thought!A perfect cosy crime for fans of M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series.Readers LOVE Debbie Young!'A delight from start to finish' Juliette Lawson'An affectionate glimpse of traditional rural English life… A warm page turner that puts the cosy into cosy mystery. Well worth a read!' T.A. Williams'Warm and cosy, the Sophie Sayers mysteries are full of likeable and eccentric characters inhabiting the idyllic Cotswold village of Wendlebury Barrow, where gossip, intrigue and murder are rife!' Michelle Salter'Sophie Sayers is the perfect antidote to these difficult times. A Cotswold version of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review'I just read your Sophie Sayers novels. I loved them. The characters were very likeable and I enjoyed getting to know them. I can’t wait for the next installment' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader ReviewThank you for the gift that is Sophie Sayers. These books have been my lifeline to home over the last year especially' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader ReviewPreviously published by Debbie Young as Trick or Murder?

'A cracking example of cozy crime!' Katie Fforde Just when Sophie Sayers is starting to feel at home in the Cotswold village of Wendlebury Barrow, a fierce new vicar arrives, quickly offending her and everyone else in the close community!Vicar Neep is strict about how he expects his parishioners to behave, but banning the villagers’ Halloween celebrations is the last straw for everyone! Especially when instead, he revives the old English Guy Fawkes tradition with a bonfire piled high with sinister effigies.Sophie begins to suspect Vicar Neep is hiding secrets of his own and maybe even knows something about her own boss - the beguiling bookseller, Hector Munro!But when a body turns up buried beneath the vicar’s bonfire Sophie knows this case is much hotter than she thought!A perfect cosy crime for fans of M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series.Readers LOVE Debbie Young!'A delight from start to finish' Juliette Lawson'An affectionate glimpse of traditional rural English life… A warm page turner that puts the cosy into cosy mystery. Well worth a read!' T.A. Williams'Warm and cosy, the Sophie Sayers mysteries are full of likeable and eccentric characters inhabiting the idyllic Cotswold village of Wendlebury Barrow, where gossip, intrigue and murder are rife!' Michelle Salter'Sophie Sayers is the perfect antidote to these difficult times. A Cotswold version of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review'I just read your Sophie Sayers novels. I loved them. The characters were very likeable and I enjoyed getting to know them. I can’t wait for the next installment' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader ReviewThank you for the gift that is Sophie Sayers. These books have been my lifeline to home over the last year especially' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader ReviewPreviously published by Debbie Young as Trick or Murder?