The Killings at Badger's Drift: Inspector Barnaby #1 (Inspector Barnaby Mysteries, 1) - Softcover

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething below the picture-postcard prettiness. In the grand tradition of the quietly intelligent copper, Barnaby has both an irresistibly dry sense of humor and a keen insight into what makes people tick.

Caroline Graham was born in Warwickshire, England. Her first Inspector Barnaby novel, "The Killings at Badger's Drift", was selected as one of the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time by the Crime Writers' Association.