A Cut Above the Rest

The second Dodie Fanshaw mystery by Marina Oliver author of 80+ novels. Dodie's rural peace is shattered first by a mermaid walking up the lawn from the river Thames and then by a body near the pool. The body belonged to an author who lived next door. His girlfriend publisher and agent ex-lovers and neighbours crowd the garden. But who might have killed this best-selling novelist? And why? Inevitably Dodie is drawn into trying to solve the mystery.