An Unholy Mess

In the small Cotswold village of Heyford Bassett vicar’s wife Monica Noble throws a party for the village’s new residents. The guests include Margaret Franklyn and her philandering husband Sean a celebrity chef and her cartoonist beau a retired Oxford Don with a secret a forty-something divorcee and the owner of a chain of gyms. A shotgun blast heralds the discovery of Margaret Franklyn’s body terrifying the community on whom inevitably suspicion falls. Who to blame? The husband? Monica’s daughter who had been accused of stealing from the deceased? Monica swings into action with the local DI to save her daughter and solve the crime.