A Rather Necessary End — Jo Ann Ferguson

MURDER AMONG THE MARIGOLDS

Lady Priscilla Flanders, widow of the local vicar, is at last ready to pack away her mourning clothes, gather up her children, and depart the peaceful -- yet perhaps too quiet -- village of Hempten-on-Heath for the bustle of London and the ton. Fate, however, has other ideas, as a neighbor is discovered -- dead -- in Priscilla's garden...

Now a prime suspect in the murder, Priscilla is determined find the real culprit before her meddlesome Aunt Cordelia can swoop in and spirit her young son, Isaac, away to a more "appropriate" environment. Fortunately, Priscilla has an able assistant in Sir Neville Hathaway, an irrepressible old friend who'd be happy to help in the investigation...and things of a more pleasant nature. Amid confusing clues and increasingly sinister goings-on, Priscilla and Neville must uncover the truth -- before someone closer to home falls victim to a killer's wrath....