Twist in the Tale – serie

Retired doctor Lilian Templeton has a dead body in her garden and there is nothing she can do to stop the gas men digging it up. DI Ronnie Twist and her sergeant, Luke Carter, are not fooled by Lilian’s apparent innocence, and a game of cat and mouse ensues as Lilian seeks to hide her murderous past and avoid detection.What led Lilian to kill? How many murders has she committed? And will she get away with it?A cosy crime novel with a twist, The Botanist takes the reader inside the mind of a surprisingly sympathetic murderer and along a rollercoaster journey as she attempts to avoid justice. The secrets of the past are revealed in parallel with the police investigation, culminating in an exciting finale and an unexpected final twist.Set in the market town of Beverley, East Yorkshire, this is the first Twist in the Tale mystery.

Pianist Max Silento has been murdered, but who did it? It wasn’t Scarlet – she would have made it look like a death of natural causes, and then DI Ronnie Twist and her sergeant, Luke Carter, wouldn’t be poking around.Scarlet would do almost anything for retired judge Ada, but going to jail was never part of the bargain. Unable to confide in her manipulative employer and benefactor, Scarlet knows one of her new-found family must be to blame… but what could the motive possibly be?Who is the killer in the seemingly perfect Rosewood family? As the police net closes in around her, Scarlet puts her home-grown detective skills to use in a race against time to uncover the killer before she is arrested herself.Set in the market town of Beverley, this is the second Twist in the Tale novel.