Thea Osborne accompanied by her beloved spaniel Hepzie has had her fair share of unfortunate occurrences while house-sitting & her new assignment for the mysterious Yvonne Parker is no exception. The isolated & somewhat unsettling village of Snowshill has Thea on edge as soon as she arrives & Hyacinth House
- her new rather cluttered home
- does nothing to dispel such feelings. Soon enough her intuition in this case proves to be right & once again Thea becomes entangled in another mystery. Stevie Horsfall a mischievous child from the village is found strangled outside Hyacinth House with his eccentric mother Gudrun as the prime suspect. Believing in Gudruns innocence Thea alongside her friend Drew Slocombe & Sonia Gladwin works to uncover a sinister plot where seemingly separate lives are intertwined with secretive & strange relationships. This malicious web of suspects leads Thea through the lives of the villagers & their secrets to London & beyond.