Millbrook has acquired a reputation it would rather not have. A handful of deaths in not very many seasons, and a baker who keeps turning out to have been standing somewhere nearby, are exactly the kind of thing that travels. One cold November morning it arrives in person: Danny Wolfe, a true-crime podcaster with a microphone, a hired cottage, and a theory that a village this pretty has no business burying so many people. Eliza Hartwell, who has spent four cases learning to keep her head d...

When Eliza Hartwell inherits her grandmother's failing bakery in the Cotswolds village of Millbrook, she arrives with three suitcases, a spider plant, and absolutely no idea how to bake. What she finds is a sourdough starter that needs feeding, a journal full of recipes and secrets, and a dead man on the kitchen floor.Geoffrey Finch, the village postmaster, was a fixture. Everyone knew Geoffrey. Everyone says it the same way, with the same careful inflection, and Eliza notices, bec...

Eliza Hartwell's bakery is finally open, her sourdough is finally worth eating, and Millbrook is finally starting to feel like home.Then the village fête arrives, and with it Camilla Vance: nationally feared food critic, celebrity judge, and a woman whose reviews have closed restaurants, destroyed livelihoods, and left a trail of ruined careers from London to Edinburgh. Within hours of arriving she has managed to offend virtually everyone in the village.When Camilla collaps...

Summer in Millbrook means Aunt Sally. The annual league tournament fills Pete's beer garden with trestle tables and lantern light, visiting teams and village gossip, and the comfortable hum of a Cotswolds evening where nobody has anywhere else to be. David Whitfield, the London weekender everyone adores, is at the centre of it all: buying rounds, charming neighbours, and making everyone feel welcome.When David is found dead in the beer garden and letters found in his cottage connec...

Some towns you can leave. Sable Cove isn't one of them.Nora Ashby spent sixteen years making very sure nobody could call her a Sable Cove girl. Then, in two gray weeks, her job folds, her fiancé leaves, and a lawyer's letter informs her she's inherited Ashby's Oddments: her great-aunt Posy's leaning, three-story curiosity shop on the half-boarded waterfront of the salt-fog town she fled at eighteen. The plan is simple: settle the estate, sell the b...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Millbrook has acquired a reputation it would rather not have. A handful of deaths in not very many seasons, and a baker who keeps turning out to have been standing somewhere nearby, are exactly the kind of thing that travels. One cold November morning it arrives in person: Danny Wolfe, a true-crime podcaster with a microphone, a hired cottage, and a theory that a village this pretty has no business burying so many people. Eliza Hartwell...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Eliza Hartwell's bakery is finally open, her sourdough is finally worth eating, and Millbrook is finally starting to feel like home.Then the village fête arrives, and with it Camilla Vance: nationally feared food critic, celebrity judge, and a woman whose reviews have closed restaurants, destroyed livelihoods, and left a trail of ruined careers from London to Edinburgh. Within hours of arriving she has managed to offend virtuall...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When Eliza Hartwell inherits her grandmother's failing bakery in the Cotswolds village of Millbrook, she arrives with three suitcases, a spider plant, and absolutely no idea how to bake. What she finds is a sourdough starter that needs feeding, a journal full of recipes and secrets, and a dead man on the kitchen floor.Geoffrey Finch, the village postmaster, was a fixture. Everyone knew Geoffrey. Everyone says it the same way, wi...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Summer in Millbrook means Aunt Sally. The annual league tournament fills Pete's beer garden with trestle tables and lantern light, visiting teams and village gossip, and the comfortable hum of a Cotswolds evening where nobody has anywhere else to be. David Whitfield, the London weekender everyone adores, is at the centre of it all: buying rounds, charming neighbours, and making everyone feel welcome.When David is found dead in t...

Millbrook has acquired a reputation it would rather not have. A handful of deaths in not very many seasons, and a baker who keeps turning out to have been standing somewhere nearby, are exactly the sort of thing that travels, and one cold morning it arrives in the person of Danny Wolfe: a true-crime podcaster with a microphone, a hired cottage, and a theory that a village this pretty has no business burying so many people. Eliza Hartwell, who has spent four cases learning to keep her head ...