The Body In The Kitchen Garden Author Surname:Sutton

The Body In The Kitchen Garden Author Surname:SuttonPudding Corner is abuzz: the enigmatic Lord Hugh Darlington has returned to his crumbling ancestral home after years away. With his fiance, he plans to revive the grand Darlington Hall and who better to help than vintage aficionado Daphne Brewster? Daphne is enchanted by the estate's stained glass windows, regal turrets and sprawling kitchen garden. But amidst the overgrown greenery, she stumbles upon something far less picturesque: a body. A body

she feels she has to accept

The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows

the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate

and discover the dark secrets that lie within

The Western horoscope comes into play

Perhaps it's the routine violence of her lab work with animals

Assumed dead by his wife Berta

starring Charles Laughton

each could only have been written by the creator of Jack Reacher

Four people came to learn its secrets - Dr Montague

Augustus Gale was a man in love - in love with a woman of genius who had been dead for over a century

After two more bodies are discovered amongst the burnt-out ruins of a building on a nearby industrial estate