Hardback: The spring bank holiday marks one year since Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown opened her florist shop in the idyllic Lake District town of Windermere. But the long weekend is far from peaceful and, as usual for Simmy, things take a deadly turn.
There is word of a series of sinister dognappings occurring in nearby Troutbeck and whilst taking a walk up Wansfell Pike, Simmy and her father, Russell, stumble on the body of a dog. Unnerved by a suspicious looking man carrying a large bag and a hushed conversation overheard outside the pub, Simmy and Russell suspect foul play.
When one of the suspects is found on a farmyard with his throat slit, Simmy reluctantly gets caught up in a murder investigation. But when Russell receives an anonymous death threat, and her assistant Bonnie appears to know more than she is letting on, Simmy has no choice but to do everything she can to find the killer.
The Troutbeck Testimony (2015) is the fourth instalment in the page-turning Lake District Mystery series.
About the author: Rebecca Tope, a British crime novelist and journalist, lives on a smallholding in Herefordshire, where she plants trees and watches wild birds, but manages to travel the world and enjoy civilisation from time to time as well. Most of her varied experiences and activities find their way into her books, sooner or later. In 1992, she founded Praxis books, a small British press.
She is the author of three murder mystery series, featuring the fictional characters of Den Cooper, a Devon police detective, Drew Slocombe, a former nurse, now an undertaker, Thea Osborne, a house sitter in the Cotswolds, and Persimmon Brown, a florist in the Lake District. Her books are set in real English villages. She uses a kind of "anti research", avoiding discussion with any of the villagers, but does walk along the footpaths and visits most of the village pubs.
She is currently working on a biography of Sabine Baring-Gould. Tope is also ghost writer of the novels based on the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme.
Rating: 5/5
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