When Catherine de Barnes' work on a cruise liner sinks lower than the ocean bed, she returns home to Much Slaughter to lick her wounds and try to salvage the wreck of her relationship with Dr Linton Heath.

But she's barely unpacked before the murder of the locum vicar and the disappearance of a potentially priceless church artefact reunites her with grumpy Chief Inspector Glen Parva.

You're invited to spend time relaxing in the Crimson Courgette Coffee Emporium and languish in the chilly vestries of not one but two churches, while meeting an eccentric local antiques dealer, a flighty TV runner, and a church warden with a secret past.

And no Cotswold Capers tale would be complete without the tails of Catherine's Golden Retriever Dagenham and his bestie, the shaggy Old English Sheepdog, Barking