Sometimes it's safer not to know your neighbors' secrets.While Augusta Hawke is a successful author of eighteen crime novels, since her husband's death she's been living vicariously through her Jules Maigret-like detective Claude and his assistant Caroline. Then a handsome police detective appears investigating a real-life mystery.Where are her neighbors, the Normans? No one has a clue what's happened - except Augusta. Although she isn't nosy, spending all day staring out the windows for inspiration means she does notice things. Like the Normans arguing. And that they've been missing a week.Once the Normans' car is found abandoned, Augusta senses material for a bestseller and calls on the investigatory skills she's developed as a crime writer.

But she soon uncovers long-hidden secrets and finds herself facing real-life dangers her characters never faced . ones she can't write her way out of."Gripping" Publishers Weekly on Death in Cornwall"Highly professional work right up to the unmasking of the surprisingly well-hidden killer"Kirkus Reviews on Death in CornwallPrevious Book: DEATH IN CORNWALL.