As Cold as Charity (The Chief Inspector Barclay Mysteries.)

'She had a talent for cultivating enemies the way other women cultivate weeds.'

When Diana Beckett is found strangled, the community of Lower Denton is shocked. A hard-nosed businesswoman, she'd made enemies in a small town still remembering when, years before, the teenager Jennie Beasley disappeared. The local police are unhappy when DCI Barclay and his team are parachuted in.

This is a high-profile case with journalists descending on a town already on edge. Charles Mangrove of the Daily Her...