Shortly before Christmas a baby is found abandoned in a vicarage porch. Hours later, intrepid explorer Con Bartram is fatally stabbed in the same Wiltshire village. Are the two events connected?
Widow Elizabeth Blair has two jobs - one as the owner of a quilt shop in Bath, the other as a private eye. When she and her lively young partner Max are hired to prove that Bartram's son did not do away with his father, she brings her enquiring mind and her American curiosity to bear on the case.
Lizbie Brown, mother of a grown-up son and daughter, was brought up in Cornwall and now lives with her husband near Bristol.
'Reveals Brown as a stylist with a line in sharp dialogue. Part-time PI Elizabeth Blair and partner Max are hired to prove a man innocent of murder. . . The crackling relationship between the principles makes for a higher entertaining read'
Crime Writers' Supplement, The Times on Double Wed
'Lizbie Brown's novel bursts open with all the fanfare of the wedding march . . . She unpicks the flaws in the characters of this intricate mystery'
Oxford Times on Double Wedding Ring