The Patterdale Plot

Simmy Brown had hoped that her autumn would be less frantic than usual to give her a chance to enjoy her pregnancy her upcoming nuptials and some time looking for a new house in the Patterdale area of the Lake District. But it is not to be… When one of the lodgers at her parents’ B&B dies in her arms after seemingly being poisoned she becomes embroiled in a complex investigation headed up by her friend DI Moxon. It is clear the victim had some connection to a controversial new building project near Patterdale and Simmy’s ideas of a quiet run up to Christmas are cruelly dashed.