Description: Campbell and Carter are back, in their toughest case yet.
Two years ago, Miff Ferguson chose to opt out of the rat race. Since then he's been living rough and happily so. Until now. For as the first signs of winter approach, everything in his life is uprooted. While looking for shelter, Miff stumbles across the corpse of a young woman in a dilapidated warehouse. Quickly realizing he is not alone, and has been spotted, Miff becomes embroiled in a game of cat-and-mouse with a killer that forces him to abandon his life and take refuge with his aunt and uncle in the village of Weston St. Ambrose. But despite his best efforts to lie low, trouble seems to follow him everywhere, and when another dead body is discovered at a local farm, it's clear Miff is not free from danger. With the clock ticking, Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter must join forces with the team of police at Bamford to piece together the puzzle before another innocent life is lost ...Brief description: Ann Granger is a British novelist of crime fiction. She writes the Mitchell and Markby, Fran Varady, Lizzie Martin, and Campbell and Carter series. Granger earned her modern languages degree from the University of London and went on to teach English in France for a year. Next, she worked at British consulates and embassies in various countries in Europe. After getting married, she ended up living in Zambia and Germany before coming back home to raise her family in England. Granger began her career writing historical romance novels under the pen name Ann Hulme, beginning with the 1979 novel A Poor Relation. She began her crime fiction career in 1991 with the novel Say It with Poison, now writing as Ann Granger.
Review Quotes: Bond gives convincing portrayals of people from various classes through her use of accents. Listeners will especially appreciate her skill at portraying the rivalry between the junior detectives, who are depicted as if they were squabbling brothers.--AudioFile "AudioFile"