Death at the Priory

Lucy Rossington doesn’t need any more trouble just now. She’s got plenty of that already at the family manor in an idyllic West Country valley.

Her recent marriage is already under strain as she struggles to keep the Rossington family home going for her young brother, Will. Her glamorous and charming friend Anna is becoming an increasingly successful actress, so why isn’t she happy? Lucy’s grandmother, Isobel, seems to be hiding a secret, and is surprisingly unsympathetic about Lucy’s personal dilemma.

So the odd incidents plaguing the Priory excavations, under the controversial leadership of the mercurial Mike Shannon, are really the last straw for Lucy. Does the death of an archaeologist really mean more than a temporary disturbance? Is Lucy imagining evil where none exists? She is soon to know. 


MARY TANT has been a historical researcher for many years, and now specialises in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her interest in history began in childhood with Richard III, Rupert of the Rhine and the young Elizabeth Tudor. Wildlife observation also started early with the plants and creatures in the woodland beside her home. An interest in crime fiction came later, but has proved just as enduring.