Lauren Chapman stared down at the lifeless figure slumped across to desk. Too shocked to move until she saw the little brooch lying on the floor. It was her mother’s.
But her mother had died three years earlier.
So what was it doing at the scene of a violent crime? As Lauren digs deeper, she finds the brooch has links to a group calling themselves The Stags. Started by her mother, it was wound up after her death.
Or had it? Who - or what - were The Stags? And why was recently arrived Conor Maguire - who Lauren herself describes as ‘the hottest man to be seen on Stoneford High Street since they took the life size cut out of Benedict Cumberbatch out of the newsagents window’ so interested in them?
On the one hand Lauren feels a strong pull of attraction to Conor. On the other, she wonders what a fancy London-trained accountant was doing working for a one man practice in a small Somerset town?
Lauren has no trouble balancing VAT returns but something about Conor Maguire - and his interest in The Stags - doesn’t add up.
Brought to Account has all the usual ingredients of a Paula Williams mystery. A small town, a cast of believable and endearing characters and a mystery that’s spiked with humour and sprinkled with romance.