False Charity

This is the start of a new mystery series from the creator of Ellie Quicke.Newly widowed and back in London from a prolonged stay in New Zealand, sixty-something Bea Abbot must decide what to do with her husband's business.

The Abbot Agency is an exclusive organization which handles domestic crises such as house clearances, staff problems and entertaining.

Their byword is discretion, at all costs.Though Bea is tempted to sell up and settle for a quiet life - a move urged upon her by her MP son Max and his socially ambitious wife Nicole, who has her eye on the Kensington house - she soon finds that it won't be so easy.

Within days of her return she has been persuaded by an old friend and long-time client, Coral Payne, to investigate an accounting irregularity within her catering firm.

What Coral doesn't know - and Bea will discover - is that someone is way out of control, and finding it all too easy to kill...