Hannah Dennison

Vicky will do anything to get off the obituary circuit and on to the front page! If there's one thing she has learnt, it's how to spot something fishy at a funeral - and plenty is amiss at the service for champion hedge-cutter Gordon Berry. In her quest for a scoop, Vicky finds she has to confront everything from bad dates to mortal danger.

At last St Mary's church is going to have its own vicar! Not only that, the gorgeous Reverend Pritchard is sixty, single and in need of a wife. But when he spearheads a campaign to restore a derelict chapel - rumoured to be haunted by a German Luftwaffe pilot - in a far-flung corner of the Honeychurch estate, the Dowager Countess puts her foot down. But nobody quite understands why. Meanwhile, a fierce bidding war at an auction of military memorabilia...

Kat Stanford stumbles upon a hidden room in an abandoned wing at Honeychurch Hall. However, Kat's initial excitement soon ends in horror. There, lying on the cold, stone floor, Kat comes across the body of a young woman dressed in an Egyptian toga and wearing a tawdry fairground trinket around her broken neck. Suspicion falls on some of those who live at the Hall - both upstairs and down and even those who are just been passing through. Matters come...

When one of the villagers asks Kat to clear out her dead sister's bedroom, she's thrilled to find a miniature replica of her mother's Carriage House among some junk. When she shares her discovery Lady Edith is eager to show her the matching replica of Honeychurch Hall that has been languishing in the vast attic for decades. Unfortunately, when they look there, it seems to have been stolen. Suspicion falls on a woman who's holidaying in the newly installed...