The Askham Accusation: A murder mystery in the heart of the English countryside

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Set in the picturesque tow n of Askham, near Ullswater, the story opens with the funeral of Humphrey Craig, the builder who converted Simmy's new house in Hartsop. The following day, when Simmy goes back to look at the grave and the flowers on it, she meets two women, Lindsay Wilson, an academic in herlate twenties who is writing a thesis on Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son, and Pauline Parsons, a local matriarch aged 90. Just 24 hours later, Mrs Parsons is found dead on Askham Fell and Simmy is summoned to Penrith police station.
She is told that she has been identified as the prime suspect ... will DI Moxon be able to help Simmy out of this unscathed

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Rebecca Tope is the author of three bestselling crime series, set in theCotswolds, Lake District and West Country. She lives on a smallholding in ruralHerefordshire, where she enjoys the silence and plants a lot of trees.