That Way Murder Lies
by Ann Granger

Meredith Mitchell is delighted when an old friend from her consular days, Toby Smythe, turns up on leave between foreign postings. But Toby has a problem---or rather his relative Alison Jenner has---and Toby wants to enlist the help of Meredith's fiancé, Detective Superintendent Alan Markby. Alison has been receiving anonymous hate mail in which reference is made to a time twenty-five years earlier when she stood trial for the murder of her aunt, Freda Kemp, but was acquitted. Who is the writer, and how does he or she know about this secret in Alison's past? Markby is reluctant to become involved, not least because Toby is hardly his favorite person. Besides, he and Meredith are planning their wedding, and distractions aren't welcome. But inquiries into a poisoned pen campaign soon turn into a murder investigation. With the help of Inspector Jessica Campbell, a new member of Markby's team, and the non-professional but enthusiastic assistance of Meredith and Toby, the inquiry unravels a twenty-five-year-old mystery and its dreadful legacy of violence.

Other Books by Ann Granger

Dead in the Water
Campbell and Carter Mystery Book 4

A Restless Evil

Shades Of Murder

Ann Granger's Bio

Ann Granger was born in Portsmouth where she was a pupil at the then Northern Grammar School for Girls and went from there to London University where she achieved a BA in Modern Languages (French with German). After a period spent first teaching English in France and then working in the Visa Section of Britiish Embassies abroad she married a fellow civil servant and they lived first in Zambia, then in Germany, before returning to the UK. When at school Ann had aspirations to become a veterinary surgeon, but was informed by the headmistress of the day that she would almost certainly find herself in a ‘small animals practice’. Possibly this wasn’t quite right, but faced, she thought, with a lifetime spent with gerbils and budgies (delightful those these creatures may be!) Ann turned her ambitiion in the direction of becoming an author. Books were a passion then and have remained a passion ever since.