A Dirty Death

by Tope, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9780749040086
• ISBN10: 0749040084
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-15
• Publisher: Intl Pub Marketing

Summary

When irascible farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard, at first it seems like an accident '¬ ; despite the fact that he was widely disliked. Only his daughter suspects foul play. Suspicion becomes certainty when two more deaths occur '¬ ; and both of them are unmistakably murder'¬¦ It had already been a spring laden with mortality. News reports were full of terrorist bombings, earthquakes and floods, and a whole herd of prime beef animals had been wasted on the altar of BSE-phobia. So it was with a strange momentary lack of surprise that Lilah found her father, early that morning, half-submerged face down in the slurry pit. The difficulty lies in discovering who, among Guy'¬"s many enemies, hated him enough to want him dead '¬ ; and who went on killing to conceal the truth. Could it be the vicar, secretly intrigued by the evil that men do? The best friend of Guy'¬"s wife Miranda? The crusty wing commander '¬ ; or the too-good-to-be-true freelance computer whizz? There is certainly no shortage of suspects. Even the ubiquitous Hetty Taplow, the village gossip, appears to know more than she'¬"ll admit'¬¦