Wow! Apparently Weycombe is G.M. Malliet's first book of dark suspense. I have read the other series by this author, which are more along the cozy mystery style....and this certainly is not a cozy. Don't start reading if you're short on time, because once you begin reading it, there is no stopping. The author keeps you guessing almost to the end, by which time you like the main character and can almost understand her actions.

This book is very different from the author's Max Tudor series. Those books are cozies, with characters who are likeable because they have integrity and faith (even when that's not Faith).

This book is more of a "Housewives of Wherever" meets English Bedroom Community. The protagonist/narrator is bitter and self-pitying and it's hard to care too much about any of the people to whom she introduces the reader, usually in the least appealing of terms.

The author's prose remains a strong point, lyric at times, but there are enough clunker metaphors to pull you out of the plot.

Not my favorite.

Jillian White has left America behind for life in Weycombe, a beautiful little English village, where she lives with her wealthy, titled English husband. It seems to good to be true, and it is. The murder of a local real estate agent brings all the ugliness of big city living to this quiet little village. It’s up to Jill to find out what’s happening in her lovely new home before someone else dies. This is a delicious cozy, filled with a proper British murder, no fuss, no muss; just lots of intriguing characters, a beautiful setting and a tightly plotted mystery