Sophie Rivers is now married to Mike who is back from touring Pakistan with the England cricket team. Offered a job archiving a collection of memorabilia that has been left to Warwickshire Cricket Club, she envisages a life of harmony and companionship.
On her first day she meets the regular museum curator Greg Gibb, known as Horse, who introduces her to Mrs Hetherington, the replacement librarian, a bustling middle-ages woman who on introduction drooped into what seemed very much like a sulky silence. Harmony didn’t seem to be on the agenda.
Having resigned from William Murdock, Sophie is keen on the part time job, which with her growing catering business gives her a reasonable income, but having gained the position cataloguing the Warwickshire Cricket Club memorabilia, she seems suddenly inundated with requests for her catering business. When at one of her events the questions about cricket seem pointed she is somewhat alarmed.
As she checks through the lists submitted with the memorabilia she becomes
aware that some items may hold a great value. Meanwhile Mike begins to behave
rather oddly and Sophie is convinced that he is hiding something from her. When
she and her colleagues at the Cricket Club become the victims of intimidation
and violence she contacts her old friend Police friend Chris. This complicates
the situation, but could Mike be having an affair?
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Lizzie Hayes
The earlier books in the series are Dying Fall, Dying To Write, Dying On Principal,
Dying For Millions, Dying For Power Dying To Score, Dying By Degrees, Dying
By the Book and Dying in Discord. Judith also writes a series featuring DS Kate
Powers. There are five books in the series.