The Cracks in the Crockery

In the comfort of their secluded farmhouse, a local housekeeper serves her employers and their extended family a delicious Sunday roast.  While the family enjoys the mouth-watering dish, however, foul developments are afoot. No sooner have they laid down their cutlery and wiped their lips that they are informed that the housekeeper has been brutally murdered. The family, of course, are shocked. But shock turns to crisis when it is discovered that the knife used to kill her matches the set the family have been dining with. A seemingly inexplicable crime perpetrated by a member of their very own family. But who? And why? And more curiously, how?

It’s up to Senior Police Constable Elspeth Belfry to find out.  But will Elspeth find herself in a bigger pickle than even she can stomach? With every hour she steps closer and closer to danger – as the foundations of the old colonial farmhouse start to shake, the cracks in the crockery begin to show...