The Village: A totally gripping, brilliantly quirky cosy mystery you won't be able to put down...

Astrid Bright is enjoying early retirement. She's taken up hiking and watercolour painting, and is in no way missing her exciting career as an investigative journalist... The thrills, the chase, the breakthrough, the story... No, she's absolutely fine as she is, thank you very much.But when a news story pops up about an eccentric village in Somerset called Chezow Splock, Astrid's curiosity is peaked. Not least because it's the place where she grew up; well, at least until the age of eight. It seems a resident of the village, Harriet Farringay, has gone missing. And Astrid knows she isn't the first person to vanish from there...Against her better judgement, Astrid finds herself travelling back to Chezow Splock to investigate. But little does she know that the residents have become even more odd, and the village's own micro-climate more unpredictable. And as for the web of lies, secrecy and gossip? Well, that's gone totally out of control.As more people disappear, Astrid begins to wonder if her own life is safe. But as she peels back layers of mystery and gets closer to the truth, nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what's really going on. The only trouble is, she's in too deep now. Will she be able to get out alive? Or will she become just another 'missing person'...?