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...

It may be the day of rest, but Lois Meade finds that not everyone believes in keeping it holy.

A rash of strange occurrences in and around Long Farnden has Lois unsettled. Someone's been stealing valuable tack from the equestrian set, and then a local n?er-do-well is killed when a horse bolts in front of his van. With a new employee on her hands who may or may not be trustworthy, Lois hardly knows what to make of the disturbances, but it soon becomes clear that she?d better figure it out post-haste, or she herself may take a nasty tumble.

The tenants of Lois Meade's terrace house in Tresham are frustrated by their neighbor's feisty pet cockerel, Satan. His owner, Clem Fitch, refuses to part with his feathery companion-making Lois's tenants fly the coop. Luckily, her son Douglas agrees to rent the house.

But when Clem and Satan are found dead, Douglas-who is involved with Clem's daughter-becomes a prime suspect in some foul business.

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A new series and a new sleuth from Ann Purser-author of the Lois Meade mysteries

Ivy Beasley, the beloved cantankerous spinster from the Lois Meade mysteries, has found a silver lining in her golden years as an amateur sleuth.

She teams up with Gus, a mysterious newcomer to the small English village of Barrington who can't resist a little excitement even as he strives to keep his past a secret, and her own cousin, a widow with time on her hands and money in her purse. Together they're determined to solve the murder of Gus's elderly neighbor.

Lois Meade's daughter was admittedly considering leaving her partner, Rob, but she never expected him to be found badly beaten and left for dead in a roadside ditch. When Rob dies from his injuries without regaining consciousness, Lois is called in to help solve the murder.