When a famous author comes to Soggybottom Hollow, murder is about to make the bestseller list.

Bestselling novelist Julian Marchmont has arrived for a much-anticipated appearance at The Final Chapter. Unfortunately, his literary reputation is considerably more impressive than his manners. Before the signing is over, he has offended half the village, humiliated an aspiring writer, and accumulated enough enemies to fill a bookshelf.

By the following morning, Julian is dead.

With Detective Inspector Culpepper once again descending on Soggybottom Hollow, Harriet Hedgerow soon discovers that the celebrated author had been keeping more than a few secrets between the covers. And in a village where everyone seems to have witnessed something, remembered something, or resented something, separating useful clues from enthusiastic interference could prove difficult.

Fortunately, Harriet has the Reading Nook regulars, a cat with a talent for making himself part of proceedings, and absolutely no intention of leaving the investigation entirely to Culpepper.

Because somebody in Soggybottom Hollow knows exactly what happened to Julian Marchmont.

And Harriet intends to find out who.

Ebook 3 of The Umbrella Mysteries. A charming English village cozy mystery brimming with amateur sleuthing, eccentric suspects, deadly secrets, village intrigue, and endless cups of tea.