By Caroline Graham
Badger's glide is a perfect English village, whole with vicar, bumbling neighborhood surgeon, and kindly spinster with a pleasant line in do-it-yourself cookies. but if the spinster dies without notice, her ally kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud sufficient to draw the eye of Detective leader Inspector Tom Barnaby. And while Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy commence poking round, they discover a swamp of grotesque scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething lower than the picture-postcard prettiness. within the grand culture of the quietly clever copper, Barnaby has either an irresistibly dry humorousness and a willing perception into what makes humans tick.
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