Raymond Coulthard

The body of a high-level government official’s secretary is found at the bottom of a staircase – and Sister Boniface claims she was dead before the fall.

A mysterious stranger, a missing donkey, an outbreak of laryngitis in the church choir and a kidnapped baby threaten to spoil Kembleford’s Christmas festivities.

Andy is working on a television period drama starring Ross Kemp. Andy’s rival, Greg, is working on a film with Kemp’s rival, footballer Vinnie Jones, in the adjacent studio building….

Jamie Cruickshank, a bartender at the Maid in Splendour public house, is keen on Bella Monday, a barmaid, and follows her to a tumbledown old cottage in the woods, only…