Review
Praise for Betty Rowland's previous Melissa Craig mysteries: 'Full of sharp insights with an unexpected twist in the tail' - Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News 'A clearly gifted and knowledgeable writer, never less than engaging and readable' - Financial Times 'Gently old-fashioned whodunit, riddled with lurking anguish' - The Times 'A splendidly lively debut ... good plotting, well-crafted writing and believable characterisation' - Publishing News 'All the best ingredients of English crime ... a novel of sharp insights' - Cotswold Life 'A younger version of Miss Marples.' Leicester Mercury on Sweet Venom 20041207
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Aidan Cresney seems to be a model citizen. An active member of the parish council and a former barrister, he took up beekeeping as a retirement hobby. Cresney confidently boasts that bees will never attack an apiarist 'who knows what he's doing'. Yet one day he is found dead after suffering multiple stings. When a second family member dies in similar circumstances, tongues begin to wag. And Melissa Craig, the Cotswolds' intrepid crime-writing sleuth, starts to uncover some disturbing secrets.
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