Over the Edge // Murder on the Clifftops — Betty Rowlands

Successful Cotswolds thriller writer Melissa Craig, accompanies her friend Iris to the Cévennes, where Iris is running an art course and Melissa is researching the history of the Camisards for her next novel.

Within a week, two bodies are found smashed to death on the rocks below a cliff. The first tragedy was an accident - or was it? As for the second victim, did he fall, was it suicide, or was he pushed?

Melissa is called upon to use her talents to establish what really happened. Working alongside, but independently from the French police, she is confronted with a labyrinth of possibilities. And if it was murder there is no shortage of suspects: the school's proprietor, the handyman who lives in a Camisard fantasy world after his family's treatment at the hands of the Gestapo, a short-sighted English widow with a passion for golf, and an aggressive young German ostensibly studying French.