Meet Carole Seddon, an uptight retiree — and Jude, the happy-go-lucky healer next door. Carole only wants a quiet life, while Jude’s determined to age disgracefully.

These chalk-and-cheese neighbours can’t help but rub each other up the wrong way! Until the day they team up to solve a baffling mystery . . .

One murder. Three missing women. A sleepy little village where everyone’s a suspect.

Carole hates to admit it. But with Jude away on holiday, she’s feeling almost lonely. Not one to wallow, she drives out to Weldisham village for a bracing walk across the South Downs . . .

But Carole is treading a twisty trail into peril.

When the rain begins to bucket down, Carole finds shelter in a dilapidated old barn. But its ramshackle roof hides a grisly secret — a human skeleton!

The dishy village sergeant is shocked but not surprised. The women of Weldisham have a habit of disappearing. He casually mentions the name of the latest victim. With a jolt, Carole realises it’s someone she knows. Well, a friend of her sort-of friend Jude. And that’s close enough for Carole.

But she’ll have to work fast to unravel the mystery.

Someone out there is watching her every move. And they don’t appreciate her snooping one little bit . . .