A Most Malicious Messenger

Menacing texts lead to murder in an English village, in this unmissable, witty mystery by the Dagger Award-nominated author of A Most Unusual Demise.

May Morrigan is in her bookshop one morning when she-and everyone else in the shop-receives an anonymous text. It contains a reference to a Shakespeare quotation-and seems to be aimed at the vicar and his partner, Juan. The next morning, one of them is dead.

Meanwhile, May's elderly mother, Minty, is staying with her, her old friend Fletcher, an...