When Meredith Mitchell agreed to stay with her actress cousin Eve in the run-up to Eves daughters wedding she anticipated a degree of drama. But she hardly expected it to include murder blackmail & unrequited love. Or to involve a certain Chief Inspector Markby a middle-aged divorcee with an emotional history as unfortunate as her own. A material witness to the only case of murder the Cotswold village of Westerfield has ever seen Meredith also finds herself acting as mother-confessor to the bride-to-be who is clearly not telling the whole truth about her involvement with the dead man. Steering a path between her duty to the police & loyalty to her cousins family is not easy; even for someone with Merediths considerable diplomatic skills. & especially as her personal enquiries into events in Westerfield start to disinter past affections Meredith would far rather leave buried
- & to provoke new ones shes not at all sure she can cope with.. .