It’s the final case for detectives Pollard & Toye! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin. Family secrets come crashing to the surface… Glade Manor, in the village of the Buckford, has been home to the Morley family for over a century. For the past thirty years, the family has been looked after by their devoted former nursemaid, now housekeeper, Nanky. But the family is cast into turmoil when the body of Nanky is found in a quarry, having been violently thrown from a cliff. With the death clearly murder and the suspects all local, the puzzling case proves too much for the local police force. Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent Pollard and Detective Inspector Toye are brought in to solve the mystery. Who would have a grudge against an unassuming housemaid? Could it have been a member of the Morley family? And will more dark secrets be uncovered in the grounds of Glade Manor…? The Glade Manor Murder is the seventeenth cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime an intriguing police procedural set in rural England. ‘Lemarchand's forte is character development, and she delineates some memorable characters here’ – Publishers Weekly 'In the best Agatha Christie tradition' – Argosy THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIES Book Death of an Old Girl Book The Affacombe Affair Book Alibi for a Corpse Book Death on Doomsday Book Cyanide With Compliments Book No Vacation From Murder Book Buried in the Past Book Step in the Dark Book Unhappy Returns Book Suddenly While Gardening Book Change for the Worse Book Nothing to Do with the Case Book Troubled Waters Book The Wheel Turns Book Light Through Glass Book Who Goes Home? Book The Glade Manor Murder