A quiet life in the country (2016)

Lady Hardcastle and her maid Flo arrive in a Gloucestershire village hoping for quiet, but a suspicious death interrupts the plan. Their teasing, mutually respectful partnership is the strongest reason to stay, and earlier adventures give them skills that make their involvement less arbitrary. The 2016 novel opens the continuing series. Expect period comedy, local social encounters and a steadily advancing investigation, with peril rather than prolonged forensic detail.