Publisher's Synopsis
Natalka and Edwin are perfect, if improbable, partners in a detective agency. At eighty-four, Edwin regularly claims that he's the oldest detective in England. He is a master at surveillance, deploying his age as a cloak of invisibility. Natalka, more than fifty years his junior, is a maths whizz who tackles any investigations concerning fraud or deception. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated. She loves a murder, as she's fond of saying, and none have come the agency's way. That is, until local writer Melody Chambers dies. Her daughters are convinced that their mother was murdered. And Edwin thinks her death may be linked to that of an obituary writer who predeceased many of his subjects. Along with Natalka's partner Benedict, he goes undercover on an isolated creative writing retreat - where another death occurs...
