Tea? Coffee? Murder? - Deadly Delivery

A perfectly normal, peaceful evening in the Black Feather is shattered when a woman storms into the pub. She spots Louise, presses a parcel into her hand and then collapses - dead! Louise is horrified to realise she knows the woman. It's her former colleague, agent Glenda Brannigan. Nathalie and Louise barely have time to recover from the shock before the next woman bursts in and accuses Nathalie of setting fire to her car! What's going on in Earlsraven? Nathalie and Louise are determined to find out. . .

About the series: There was nothing in the will about this . . . Cottages, English roses and rolling hills: that's Earlsraven. In the middle of it all: the "Black Feather". Not only does young Nathalie Ames unexpectedly inherit this cosy inn from her aunt, she also falls heir to her aunt's secret double life! She solved criminal cases together with her cook Louise, a former agent of the British Crown. And while Nathalie is still trying to warm up to the quirky villagers, she discovers that sleuthing runs in the family.

Ellen Barksdale was born in the English seaside resort of Brighton. Her first experience of crime fiction was with the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon (her mother is Belgian by birth). After years of reading crime fiction, she recently decided to take up writing herself. TEA? COFFEE? MURDER! is her first mystery series. Ellen Barksdale lives near Swansea with her partner Ian and their three dogs Billy, Bobby and Libby.