by Liz FieldingPublish: Aug 08, 2026 Series: Maybridge Murder MysteriesCrime Fiction
Book Overview
t’s a golden summer’s day in the Cotswolds. And garden designer Abby Finch is about to uncork the perfect murder . . .
Huge-hearted Abby loves dogs — and doesn’t think twice about swerving to avoid an adorable terrier in a country lane. Or following along, when the troublesome pup goes darting off into a local vineyard.
But she never expects where the runaway dog is leading her — straight to a corpse!
Clementine Courtenay, elegant matriarch of the May Valley Vineyard, lies floating face-down in a stream.
The police say she must have slipped and drowned. But Abby’s not so sure.
As rumours begin to swirl amid the tangled vines, Abby realizes that no one in Clementine’s inner circle is quite what they seem.
Between jilted lovers, greedy offspring and bitter rivals, Clementine kept her friends close and her enemies closer still . . .
What secrets will Abby find — fermenting in the darkest corners of the Courtenay family cellar?
It’s up to Abby to solve the case before this sweetest vintage turns sour . . .
Fans of Faith Martin, Fiona Leitch, Frances Evesham and Clare Chase are sure to be enchanted by this clever and characterful cozy mysteries, packed with scandalous secrets, shifty suspects and a dog who knows too much!
**Liz Fielding is the winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense!**
BIOGRAPHY Liz is an award winning author with over 80 books and short stories published by Harlequin and other publishers and now writes cozy crime for Joffe Books. Murder Among the Roses won the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellent for Mystery/Suspense and both Murder Among the Roses and Murder in Bloom have been shortlisted for The People's Book Prize.
She has lived and travelled extensively in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, but now lives in West Sussex, near Pooh Bear's Hundred Acre Wood.
She loves to garden, knits a bit and loves to read both crime novels and romance but best of all spending time with her family.