Death in le Jardin : the unputdownable new cosy murder mystery

by Moore, Ian

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published 20/03/2025 by Duckworth Books (Farrago) in the United Kingdom as part of the A Follet Valley Mystery series.

Paperback | 304 pages

On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it. Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about.

Then crisis hits his posh B&B when redoubtable housekeeper, Madame Tablier, is accused of murdering a former fiancé. An accusation which the stubborn old woman refuses to deny.

Valérie d'Orçay is having none of it and their investigation leads them to a strange tourist garden village, where backbiting, recriminations and former colleagues provide a deadly scenario more tangled than knotweed.