Pretty Maids All in a Row (DCI Webb Mystery Book 3)

‘A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read’ – Booklist

When newly wedded actress Jessica Randal accompanies her biographer husband to the country for a month's research, she fully expects to be bored, especially with her leg in plaster following an accident on their honeymoon.

The couple are the talk of the town - but not for the reasons you might expect.

They soon learn they are renting the house of a murder victim, and that a rapist is at large who has singled Jessica out.

Jessica, caught in the melodrama of the not so sleepy town of Steeple Bayliss, is determined to keep her independence.

But at what cost?

Chief Inspector Webb and Sergeant Jackson pit their wits against a cunning adversary as everyone in the village — including Jessica's husband — is under suspicion...

Pretty Maids All in a Row is a gripping crime novel featuring Anthea Fraser's popular detective David Webb.

Praise for Anthea Fraser

‘Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self, withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall’ - Sunday Times

’A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story’ - Birmingham Post

‘Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings’ - Yorkshire Post

Anthea Fraser has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her novels include The Seven Stars, The Ten Commandments, Death Speaks Softly and Pretty Maids All in a Row.