An utterly gripping cozy crime mystery full of secrets, scandal and unexpected twists.

Meet Rain Morgan, newspaper gossip columnist by profession, amateur sleuth by chance.

The lifeless body of Alf Wilson, the award winning screen writer, was found swinging from his chandelier at nine a.m.

For the police it’s a straightforward case. Alf’s career had nosedived and he’d taken his own life. But for Rain Morgan, who’d found the body, this was murder.

For one thing, there’s no way Wilson could have strung up the rope to the chandelier on his own. For another, he’d asked her to meet him at his home — and Rain can’t believe he would have asked her there just to find his body.

Wilson had claimed to have a breakthrough script. But whatever he’d been working on had got him killed. Rain is determined to find out who, and what, it was.

Meanwhile, a young novelist disappears while sailing a notorious stretch of the Cornish coast. What appears to be a tragic accident turns sinister when his latest manuscript goes missing.

These seemingly unconnected events begin to point Rain towards a more sinister story.

But the more Rain follows Wilson’s leads and the missing novelist, the closer she gets to a killer . . .

Fans of M.C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin, Richard Osman, Faith Martin, Marty Wingate, Merryn Allingham, Liz Fielding and Richard Coles will love this gripping cozy crime series.

Previously published as Curse the Darkness