British working-class mum Lois Meade cleans houses in the quaint village of Long Farnden. When a local spinster is murdered, Lois uncovers some surprising secrets about this seemingly peaceful village that put her family in mortal danger. HC: Severn House (UK).

Working-class mum and housecleaner Lois Meade plies her sleuthing skills once again after discovering a dead body--dressed in a suit of armor--in a chapel in the second title of this cozy series.

It's all smiles for the series that sweeps up sales-every day of the week.

Working mum and owner of a cleaning business, Lois has just hired on the daughter of the Abrahams, an eccentric, reclusive family. But when strange letters and omens put everyone on edge, Lois wonders if the rumors about the Abrahams are the key to a terrible secret.

The handsome new choirmaster in the village of Long Farnden may have been poisoned. Eager too crack the case, Chief Inspector Cowgill asks cleaner Lois Meade for help (again). Lois soon finds herself untangling a web of secrets, bigotry, and intrigue.

To her own credit, Lois's cleaning business is really starting to clean up. So much that she decides to open up a new office in the neighboring town of Tresham, where she takes note of an unusually busy--and slightly sinister--storefront across the street. But business quickly mixes with Lois's nose for sleuthing when she's hired to clean the house of the pompous mayor, and then witnesses his honor's limo picking up a dubious-looking package from the mysterious shop. There's a filthy underside to Tresham, and when bloody murder starts staining the quaint town, Lois has to put her own life on...