This is the second of the Pamela Prendergast Mysteries. When a tree falls through the roof of Maisie Macdonald's conservatory, Pamela is at a loss to know where to hold her recently formed art class. A call from a stranger, Emma Blackford, solves the problem. Emma is keen that her daughter Dilly should join the class, and offers the use of her garden office for the class sessions. But it isn't long before Pamela begins to wonder whether she should have been so quick to accept the offer. She suspects an intruder is lurking in the shrubbery outside the office on one of the dark November evenings, and later her friend is attacked, a body is found and the police get involved. Pamela finds that having DCI Mal Mitchell as a neighbour is also a mixed blessing.
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Cecilia Peartree is the pen name of a writer from Edinburgh. She has dabbled in various genres so far, including science fiction and humour, but she keeps returning to a series of 'cosy' mysteries set in a fictitious small town in Fife.
Currently the first full length novel of the Pitkirtly Mysteries, 'Crime in the Community', and a couple of others in the series, 'A Creative Crime' and 'Secrets of the Ice Palace', are available as free ebooks.
The Quest series is set in the different Britain of the 1950s. The sixth novel in this series, 'Quest for a Father' was published in March 2017.
More recently, Cecilia has also published the 4-book (so far) Max Falconer mystery series and is working on the 3rd Pamela Prendergast mystery. Both series are set mostly in Edinburgh.
As befits a cosy mystery writer, Cecilia Peartree lives in the leafy suburbs with her cats.