Death in le Jardin : the unputdownable new cosy murder mystery

On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it.

Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about. Then crisis hits his posh B&B when redoubtable housekeeper, Madame Tablier, is accused of murder.

Even more surprisingly, it's the murder of a former fiancé, turned brother-in-law.

None of which the stubborn old woman denies. Valérie d'Orçay is having none of it and their investigation leads them to a strange tourist garden village, where backbiting, recriminations and even former colleagues provide a deadly scenario more tangled than knotweed.