Assassins at Ospreys

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Third in much-admired new series of country house whodunnits. Mystery writer Antonia Darcy and her husband, Major Hugh Payne, attend a literary festival in Hay-on-Wye. There they reluctantly befriend two unusual women, Beatrice "Bee" Ardleigh, and Bee's austere companion, Ingrid Delmar. A few months later, Antonia and Hugh accept Bee's invitation to come see her in Oxfordshire, where Bee has just made a controversial marriage and Ingrid has been impersonating Bee on visits to a dying neighbor who plans to leave his home, Ospreys, to the National Trust.