Another case for Pollard & Toye! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin. Dark secrets lurk behind every door... The peace of the English countryside is shattered one August morning by the discovery of a skeleton in the boot of a dumped car. A murder has been uncovered and when Detective Superintendent Pollard and Detective Sergeant Toye arrive on the scene they discover that this hamlet buried deep in the country is not so calm a place as it first appears. The inhabitants of the secluded village of Twiggadon, from Derek Wainwright, owner of the land where the body was found, to Henry Stobart, who has a skeleton or two in his own cupboard, are reluctant to air their individual secrets and offer the investigators little help. Further complicating matters are the events that surrounded the apparent murder, which include a flood that caused the death of another man, a couple of family feuds and an odd case of mistaken identification. How do you narrow down the suspects when the only person with an alibi is the corpse...? Alibi For A Corpse is the third cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England. 'An exceptional crime novel cunningly constructed and dense with human strangeness and mystery ... Miss Lemarchand has clearly emerged as a significant name in crime fiction' - Western Morning News 'With humor, skillful plotting and a thorough knowledge of police procedure, Lemarchand adds this solid and satisfying mystery to her previous Pollard and Toye adventures' - Publisher's Weekly 'Nice atmospheric writing, and a plot that plays scrupulously fair with the reader' - Coventry Evening Telegraph 'In the best Agatha Christie tradition' - Argosy THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIESBook One: Death of an Old GirlBook Two: The Affacombe AffairBook Three: Alibi for a CorpseBook Four: Death on DoomsdayBook Five: Cyanide With ComplimentsBook Six: No Vacation From MurderBook Seven: Buried in the PastBook Eight: Step in the DarkBook Nine: Unhappy ReturnsBook Ten: Suddenly While GardeningBook Eleven: Change for the WorseBook Twelve: Nothing to Do with the CaseBook Thirteen: Troubled WatersBook Fourteen: The Wheel TurnsBook Fifteen: Light Through GlassBook Sixteen: Who Goes Home?Book Seventeen: The Glade Manor Murder
