A RESTLESS EVIL

Judith Boyd's performance is everything one could hope for in Ann Granger's traditional English "cosy." In the fourteenth installment of the series, Inspector Alan Markby and Meredith Mitchell are house-hunting in the remote village of Lower Stovey, the location of Markby's first investigation twenty years earlier, the only one left unsolved. The Potato Man, a serial rapist, dropped out of sight after his third attack and was never caught. When human bones are unearthed, Markby is immediately drawn in, hoping to finally put an end to the old case. Boyd delivers the host of eccentric locals with juicy accents and colorful details of the Cotswalds and Stovey Woods. This is one to curl up with on a chilly winter's eve. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 07/ JAN 08]