Murder in the Village

— A thrilling crime mystery full of unexpected twists and turns
— The standard of the purely English detective genre
— For fans of Agatha Christie, Alexandra Marinina’s detective series about Anastasia Kamenskaya and the series “Mair of Easttown”
— More than two million copies sold.

Hillary Green is a sassy and smart woman. And she needs to save her career and catch the criminal at all costs.

An aspiring politician is found beaten to death in the kitchen of his own home. His wife's alibi is full of holes, and there is another woman in the background. What about his seemingly mild-mannered political rival?

Inspector Hillary Green tries to get to the bottom of this complicated murder. And he strongly doubts that enough evidence will be scraped together against the main suspect. Just as she's about to make a breakthrough, everything is turned upside down by a fatal development in another case she's working on...

Will Hillary be able to find the killer and will she survive a confrontation with one of Oxford's most dangerous criminals?