Candle for a Corpse (Mitchell & Markby 8)

On an unseasonably chilly summer’s day, a macabre discovery is made in Bamford’s ancient churchyard. A body, dead some twelve years, is unearthed in the Gresham family plot, too shallowly buried to be a legitimate interment, too recent to be the last Gresham officially laid to rest.

Superintendent Alan Markby cannot resist the challenge to solve this twelve-year-old crime, and suddenly his long-planned canal-barge holiday with Meredith Mitchell is in serious jeopardy. When the remains…