Malice Poetic When Melissa Craig sees the brochure advertising the 'Writer's Retreat' in Uphanger Manor, she decides to book a week's stay. The peaceful, rural, Cotswolds surroundings - just far enough away from her close friends Iris and DCI Ken Harris - should enable her to concentrate on completing her next novel without distraction.
Instead she walks straight into an atmosphere of hostility and suspicion which alerts her crime writer's mind. Why is the owner Stewart Miles Haughan so unpopular with his employees? What lies behind the tension between him and his wife? Who is the composer of the strangely haunting poems that keep appearing among his correspondence, and why is he taking them so seriously?
With characteristic high-handedness Haughan practically coerces Melissa into trying to track down the anonymous poet. With mixed feelings, she agrees to do a little snooping around. And then things start to turn nasty… 'Melissa Craig, the canny and vigorous crime novelist who is the protagonist of the novels of Betty Rowlands, is an engaging, human heroine' Financial Times
'Full of sharp insights with an unexpected twist in the tail. A satisfying read' Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News
Malice Poetic
Malice Poetic