“i can’t work with all this going on”

IT’S the annual scarecrow festival in Lush Places and, if truth be told, I’m struggling. This year’s theme is “Royalty”, which doesn’t leave much room for the imagination to run riot. Years ago, when

IT was one of those conversations on the bus that makes you keen to hear the rest of it. “You know, I really wasn’t in the mood to go,” the woman on the seat in front of me was saying to her companion

Nothing much happened in the village DS Dottie Reed was posted to – until a body was found

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

A criminal in their midst? Thankfully the village had its own Miss Marple

It has been a long drive, but I need to get as far away from the city as possible. Somewhere near Andover the stupidity of what I’m doing hits me and I pull into a service station, get out of the car