Enjoyable stuff as always from Rebecca Tope. Commendable because it’s in many ways got a typical ‘cosy’ mystery setup (newly widowed housesitter stumbles into murder investigation in pretty village) but managed to never make me scream ‘no, don’t go down the dark staircase to the cellar alone without a torch!’ even though the central character did some things that were almost as bad as going down that rickety staircase a few times.