Books in the An Ellie Quicke Mystery series

Ellie and new husband Thomas are called to deal with Ursula, who has staged a sit-in at church. Ursula challenges Ellie to solve three mysteries: a broken engagement, a disappearance and a death. Ellie suspects there is more to these events than anyone is admitting. Soon she finds her own close circle targeted, as a powerful group hunt her down.

Ellie Quicke is confronted by an angry young man, demanding to know what has happened to his elderly great aunt. Flavia Osborne had refused to move in with her relatives, telling everyon that she's sold her secluded house and was moving to a retiremening flat; but it seems she never arrived at her destination.