Death at Valley View Cottage — Tannis Laidlaw

Meet Madeleine Brooks. Ex-probation officer. Ex-wife. Now transformed into an estate agent in a delightful but not-so-sleepy English village.Today she’s listing a renovated cottage at the edge of the Chiltern Hills unaware of its recent and sinister past. Unaware of being manipulated. When a body is discovered, she finds herself catapulted into solving a murder with tentacles that reach deep into her own family.Beautifully paced, loaded with endearing characters and with just the right amount of tension, DEATH AT VALLEY VIEW COTTAGE takes us into the heart of traditional British murder mystery territory – and reminds us how we love being immersed in a story, in its characters – especially when it is done so well.This is the third book in the popular Madeleine Brooks Mystery series, although each can be read as a stand-alone.