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In this gripping mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, the village spinster dies behind a fortune teller�s booth, and Calleshire�s greatest detective looks into the future�and sees justice The annual Horticultural Society Flower Show would have gone off without a hitch were it not for one very pesky murder. When nurse Joyce Cooper goes missing from the parish�s fortune-telling booth at the flower fair, her friends at the local church are immediately concerned. It�s not like this old lady, who plays the organ during service every Sunday without fail, and who, it�s told, lives for the purpose of helping others, to disappear without notice. So when she�s found strangled to death under a tarp, the community is thrown into an uproar. Who better to calm the crowd than Calleshire�s greatest detective? Alongside his bumbling sidekick, Constable Crosby, C. D. Sloan runs through the bizarre list of suspects�the daughter of a deceased anthropologist, a greedy developer, a jealous tomato gardener, and a set of wealthy farmers�to find out who would have benefited most from the beloved nurse�s death. What he finds will astonish the entire village.