Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving.

She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real.

On a lazy summer’s day in Frantham, what could be better than a refreshing pint in a country pub?

Too bad Rina’s local just became a crime scene.

A man is stabbed to death on the pub doorstep. And that’s not the worst of it.

The skeleton of a mystery woman is uncovered during excavations at a local airfield. Forensics say she’s been dead twenty years at most, and she didn’t die on site — leaving Detective ‘Mac’ MacGregor with not one but two baffling murder cases on his hands.

He needs Rina’s help like never before. But his timing couldn’t be worse.

Rina thought her acting days were behind her, but now the TV execs want her back onscreen.

As much as she’d love to oblige, her instincts tell her this is no time to be leaving town.

Storm clouds are gathering over Frantham, and Rina and Mac are about to be swept up in the maelstrom . . .

If you love Agatha Christie, Jeanne M. Dams, The Thursday Murder Club, Glenda Young, Stella Cameron, Frances Evesham or Ann Cleeves, prepare to be hooked by this enchanting character-driven mystery! Originally published as Cause of Death.