Harry and Belinda work together to uncover the culprit, while investigating dognapping leading to pregnant thoroughbred dogs.

It’s an elaborate operation involving two police forces; Hillary is involved as is her boss, her team, and several other police officers from their office. In fact I think that this series just gets better and better with each book that is released, but more about that in a bit.

Yes, the local pub landlord drowned in his own ale and there are a band of dognappers lurking in the dark. Help me name Maggie and Laurent's kids, read the daily exerpts from the latest Maggie book in process. I enjoy Faith Martin's books immensely and am reading through them as quickly as she is producing them. When I say story, there are actually two stories here – the murder in the village and a much bigger, far reaching battle with the local drugs baron.

She was born in Oxford and sets most of her crime novels within sight of the city of dreaming spires. While Hillary wonders how her boss has managed to get such a tip off so soon after taking up his post in Oxford, she’s part of the team that carries out the raid. You never know when one of my books will be on sale so be sure and Follow Me on Bookbub to get the sales alert the minute it comes as well as the notification for every new book release!When an old high school friend is murdered on the Côte d’Azur while auditioning for the hit TV travel show “Americans See Europe,” Maggie is forced to break away from village life and new motherhood to find the killer.

Having read and enjoyed the first three novels in the Hillary Green series, I settled into this one, not realising what a great and gripping story it was going to be. This is billed as a cosy/cozy mystery but it has an edgier side to it that makes it a lot more exciting than many cosies/cozies out there but still avoids graphic descriptions and profanity. This time, the new police superintendent is in charge – the man sent to Oxford from the Met in London. If you love crime reads that are on the cosier, light hearted side, then this is the perfect book to dive into.

The murder of a local, campaigning to get into government, supplies Hillary and her Team with a plethora of suspects and just as many dead ends. Then when another person in the small French town dies in suspicious circumstances, Flora is convinced the two untimely deaths must be connected.

I loved the heroine, castle-owner and business angel Belinda Penshurst, who rushes in where angels fear to tread. Book 10, Murder in Cannes, gives you a luscious dip in the Mediterranean with a little murder thrown in!Murder in the Village is the start of another brand new cosy mystery series set in the quiet, cosy village of Little Chalham and which brings together two unlikely persons together to form a crime solving duo--Belinda Penhurst an independent woman in her early forties who lives in the local castle and has financially invested in a lot of the local businesses around the village and Harry Powell, a retired police officer/detective who has recently moved to the area and now runs his own dog food business. Belinda has invested in several local businesses as she understands the importance of village commerce, so when a suspicious dead body is discovered in the New Inn, the watering hole in which she is a stakeholder, she is of course concerned about both the murder and its impact on the pub. Her sleuthing takes her from the sun-drenched beaches of Saint-Tropez to the cafes and backstreets of Arles, across lavender fields and stunning medieval ruins and straight into the evil hands of her most diabolical adversary yet. The one thing I thought unrealistic was the denouement concerning her late husband's ill gotten gains, because previously it seemed that only Hilary with her knowledge of his likes and dislikes etc would have worked out exactly where to look for them. With a number of running issues brought to a head and resolved, I can’t wait to see how Hillary and the team develop and take on some new challenges in the next murder investigation.