A brain-twisting mystery for Pollard & Toye! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin. The trip of a lifetime is the last one he ever took... Things take a disastrous turn for American tourist Edward Tuke when he travels to the little village of Woodcombe to trace his English heritage. He sets out to view a local landmark ... and turns up dead. It seems vandals removed the warning signs at the entrance to a broken bridge and Edward drowned in the river. But when the local police force get an anonymous tip-off crying murder, they start to think the vandalism may have been premeditated... They call in Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent Pollard and Detective Inspector Toye for help. What was Edward's family link to Woodcombe? Did anyone in the village have a reason to harm him? And was his fall more than an accident...? Troubled Waters is the thirteenth cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England. 'Lemarchand's suspects are classically genteel, her detectives refreshingly human, and her mystery plot satisfying' - Boston Sunday Globe 'well worth seeking out' - St Louis Post-Dispatch 'a masterful story' - Norfolk Virginia-Pilot 'In the best Agatha Christie tradition' - Argosy THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIESBook One: Death of an Old GirlBook Two: The Affacombe AffairBook Three: Alibi for a CorpseBook Four: Death on DoomsdayBook Five: Cyanide With ComplimentsBook Six: No Vacation From MurderBook Seven: Buried in the PastBook Eight: Step in the DarkBook Nine: Unhappy ReturnsBook Ten: Suddenly While GardeningBook Eleven: Change for the WorseBook Twelve: Nothing to Do with the CaseBook Thirteen: Troubled WatersBook Fourteen: The Wheel TurnsBook Fifteen: Light Through GlassBook Sixteen: Who Goes Home?Book Seventeen: The Glade Manor Murder
