"For Alice and her partner, Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace life in the English countryside and prepare for the birth of their first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she'll learn to make jam? But the rural idyll they'd hoped for doesn't quite pan out when the body of a shopkeeper is discovered at their local prenatal class, and they find themselves suspects in a murder investigation. With a cloud of suspicion hanging over the heads of the whole group, Alice and her newfound pregnant friends set out to solve the mystery and clear their names, along with the help of Alice's troublesome dog, Helen. However, there are more secrets and tensions in the heart of Penton than first meet the eye. Between the discovery of a shady commune up in the woods, the unearthing of a mysterious death years earlier, and the near-tragic poisoning of Helen, Alice is soon in way over her head"--Dust jacket flap.
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