When a human skeleton turns up on the grounds of Bracketts House, the historic home of children's author Esmond Chadleigh, Carole Seddon and her bohemian neighbor, Jude, investigate whether or not the famed late writer was responsible.

Welcome to Fethering! Sleuthing neighbours Jude and Carole uncover secrets and lies in the horsing community in this quirky, light-hearted British cozy mystery. When healer Jude pays a visit to Long Bamber Stables one evening - to meet her unusually horse-shaped new client and his owner Sonia Dalrymple - she does not expect to stumble across a man lying in the darkness. Walter Fleet, co-owner of the stables, has been viciously stabbed to death. Sleuthing...

When Jude wanders into Fethering's local bookies she has no idea that she will shortly be investigating the murder of Polish immigrant Tadeusz Jankowski. With her partner in crime, friend and next-door-neighbour Carole Seddon, she's determined to discover who killed him - and why? There are several favorites in the running: A mysterious woman in the bookies? The charming lecturer at the university? Or the mysterious attacker from whom Jude only narrowly...

When Jude joins a committee to save the local cake shop, she finds the meetings fraught with petty power struggles and monstrous egos, a situation that worsens when she and Carole find a dead body with a link to the shop.