Miss Marple, Agatha Christie's immortal spinster sleuth with a razor sharp mind and a intuitive understanding of criminal behavior gets to grips with a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy village of St. Mary Mead, where under a seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and death.
The third novel in Annie Murray's "Birmingham" series. While Genie's father is away fighting in World War II, her mother has a ruinous affair which leaves her pregnant; Genie's little brother leaves, never to return; while Genie herself meets a man who then disappears to war.