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The Lime Tree Murders


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Wooton Poges knows its place. It stands four-square behind decent behaviour, gainful employment and thoroughly-boiled vegetables – a normal English village.

In other words, people are nosy, gossip is rife, and resentment churns, barely contained by wrap-over pinafores or hand-knitted twinsets. Contained, that is, until May Day, 1934 when the Vicar has his Bright Idea.

This unworldly man aims for harmony; he achieves uproar and mayhem instead. From manor to cottage, shop to pub, malice seethes and tempers fray. Civility is stretched to its limits and snaps; sexual tension explodes. Everyone knows that the Vicar’s idea means trouble. No-one knows it will mean murder. Several murders…

The Lime Tree Murders is the first crazy crime novel by Caroline Ashton, bestselling author of the Regency Belles series. Inspired by 'golden age' crime fiction, The Wooton Poges Mysteries  will continue with a novella, The Poisonous Pencil.

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  • About
    • Terms of Business
  • Contact
  • How to Submit
    • Books We Like
    • SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES
  • Clients A - L
    • Caroline Ashton
    • The Regency Belles Series >
      • Rowena >
        • Araminta
        • Harriette
        • Beatrice
        • Imogene
        • Louise
        • Rosalind
    • The Lime Tree Murders
    • Pulling Up The Weeds
    • Follow Me
    • Regency Short Stories
    • Amanda Austen >
      • Diminishing Returns
    • Hugo Barnacle >
      • Promise >
        • Day One
    • Leila Berg >
      • Flickerbook
    • Stephen Buck >
      • Films I Saw With My Father
    • Jane Gordon-Cumming
    • Iestyn Edwards >
      • My Tutu Went AWOL
    • Ralph Fevre
    • Gray Freeman
    • Sam Giles >
      • A Very English Doctor
  • Clients M - Y
    • R P Marshall >
      • Antisense
    • Carol McGrath >
      • Mistress Cromwell
      • The Daughters of Hastings Trilogy >
        • The Silken Rose
        • The Damask Rose
        • The Stolen Crown
    • Sophie Parkin >
      • The Colony Room Club 1948-2008
    • Robert Ross >
      • Forgotten Heroes of Comedy
    • Lakshmi Raj Sharma >
      • Intriguing Women
      • Marriages Are Made in India >
        • The Tailor's Needle
    • Tony Slattery
    • Jonathan Socrates
    • Adrienne Vaughan
    • Grace Wynne-Jones >
      • Ordinary Miracles >
        • Wise Follies
        • Ready or Not >
          • The Truth Club
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