Trick or Murder? by Debbie Young

Trick or Murder? by Debbie Young

Just when Sophie Sayers is starting to feel at home in the Cotswold village of Wendlebury Barrow, a fierce new vicar arrives, quickly offending her and everyone else he meets. Banning the villagers' Halloween celebrations seems like the last straw, particularly when he instead revives the old English Guy Fawkes tradition with a bonfire piled high with sinister effigies.

And what dark secret is he hiding about her boss, the beguiling bookseller, Hector Munro? Whose body is found outside the village bookshop? Not to mention the one buried beneath the vicar's bonfire?

For fans of cosy mysteries everywhere, Sophie's second adventure will have you laughing out loud as you try to solve the mystery before she does, in the company of engaging new characters, as well as familiar favourites from the firs tin the series, Best Murder in Show.

Debbie Young lives and writes in a small Gloucestershire village, which inspires and informs her novels, which are set in a rural Cotswolds environment and are full of mystery, mayhem, and humour. Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries (novels), Staffroom at St Bride's - School Shops for Adults (novels), and Tales from Wendlebury Barrow (fast reads of novelette or novella length) are her three established series. Secrets at St Bride's, one of her novels, was shortlisted for the Bookbrunch Selfies Awards for best independently published fiction in the UK in 2020.