This book was first published in 2000 and is your typical classic English cozy. Ellie Haskell has starred in 9 books and she has married and had children. When her husband takes the children on a vacation so she can finish redecorating the children's rooms, she thinks she will have time to complete her project. A letter from her grandmother's friends arrives and makes that plan fall to the wayside. They want her to visit and help save their village as a developer is forcing them to sell their home. They insist her dead grandmother wants her to help. This mystery has a few twists and turns you don't expect but it drags in many places.