The Killings at Badger's Drift

Simply the best detective writer since Agatha ChristieThe Sunday Times

A book that will glue you from beginning to end. If you love Agatha Christie, youll adore Caroline Graham, with characters who charm and murderers who terrorise. Named by the CWAs as one of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, The Killings at Badgers Drift is the first spectacular novel in the Midsomer Murders series, the novel that inspired the ITV hit drama, now featuring an exclusive foreword by John Nettles who played best-loved TV detective and star of Midsomer Murders, DCI Tom Barnaby.

The village of Badgers Drift is the essence of tranquillity. But when resident and well-loved spinster Miss Simpson takes a stroll in the nearby woods, she stumbles across something she was never meant to see, and theres only one way to keep her quiet.

Miss Simpsons death is not suspicious, say the villagers. But Miss Lucy Bellringer refuses to rest: her friend has been murdered. She is sure of it.

She calls on Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby to investigate, and it isnt long until the previously unseen seamy side of Badgers Drift is brought to light.

But as old rivalries, past loves and new scandals surface, the next murder is not far away.

Praise for Caroline Grahams novels:

One to savour Val McDermid

A mystery of which Agatha Christie would have been proud. . . A beautifully written crime novelThe Times

Tension builds, bitchery flares, resentment seethes . . . lots of atmosphereMail on Sunday
A witty, well-plotted, absolute joy of a bookYorkshire Post

Swift, tense and highly alarmingTLS

Lots of excellent character sketches . . . and the dialogue is lively and convincingIndependent

Read her and youll be astonished . . . very sexy, very hip and very funnyScotsman