A Dirty Death
No romance or no physical intimacy at all.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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Readhowyouwant 16 point large print. When irascible farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own slurry pit, only his daughter Lilah is prepared to defend his memory, and when Lilah suspects foul play, no one is eager to help her investigations. Her suspicion becomes certainty when two more deaths occur - both unmistakably murder. But who, among Guy's many enemies, hated him enough to want him dead - and went on killing to conceal the truth? The vicar ... the Wing-Commander... the computer whizz? There is certainly no shortage of suspects. Even the ubiquitous Hetty Taplow, the village gossip, appears to know more than she'll admit.
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