NEW to the Peridale series? This book is the PERFECT jumping in point! The 22nd book in the BESTSELLING Peridale Cafe Cozy Mystery Series. With Julia South-Brown enjoying her newborn daughter’s every milestone safe in her cosy cottage, and with maternity leave cutting her off from the rumour mill of her café, she doesn’t realise just how much local news and gossip she’s missed. Between a wave of break-ins and thefts, Peridale isn’t quite the safe little village she remembers. But when the leader of Peridale’s Eyes, the local neighbourhood watch group, meets her end on the same day Julia’s neighbour Leah’s house is broken into and robbed, Julia finds herself pulled back into the familiar world of clues, suspects, and motives – not to mention her gran’s rival neighbourhood watch group Dot South knows this is her moment to shine. For years, she’s been dreaming of starting a neighbourhood watch group of her own. Now, with a murder on her doorstep and a bunch of hapless amateurs bungling every attempt at solving it, who better to form and lead a newer, better version of Peridale’s Eyes? Or should she say … Dot’s Detectives ? "This series just keeps getting better and better!" Other books in the series (8000+ ratings/reviews on Amazon): Pancakes and Corpses - Lemonade and Lies - Doughnuts and Deception - Chocolate Cake and Chaos - Shortbread and Sorrow - Espresso and Evil - Macarons and Mayhem - Fruit Cake and Fear - Birthday Cake and Bodies - Gingerbread and Ghosts - Cupcakes and Casualties - Blueberry Muffins and Misfortune - Ice Cream and Incidents - Champagne and Catastrophes - Wedding Cake and Woes - Red Velvet and Revenge - Vegetables and Vengeance - Cheesecake and Confusion - Brownies and Bloodshed - Cocktails and Cowardice - Profiteroles and Poison - Scones and Scandal - Raspberry Lemonade and Ruin Book 22 in the Peridale Cafe Cozy Mystery series! Can be read as a standalone but will be enjoyed more as part of the series. A light, cozy mystery read with a cat loving and cafe-owning amateur female sleuth, in a small village setting with quirky characters. Written in British English. No cliffhanger, swearing, gore or graphic scenes! Contains mild peril. A FUN British village cosy/cozy mystery packed with HEART, HUMOUR, FAMILY DRAMA, and plenty of TWISTS and TURNS!