You can run but you can't hide...

Virginia Gould's world is turned upside down when a wealthy family member leaves her his house in his will.

She suddenly finds herself a young woman of independent means - but her relation, Nigel Kerslake is furious that she inherited.

Determined to escape Nigel's wrath, Virginia decides to make a new start in the village of Marleigh.

But it doesn't take long for Nigel to find her. And when a local woman is found murdered Virginia feels her freedom slipping away...

Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent Pollard and Detective Inspector Toye are put on the case.

What is Virginia hiding from them? Is she involved with the murder?

Or do her fears have nothing to do with the case...?

Nothing To Do With The Case is the twelfth cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England.

'Lemarchand scores again' - Publisher's Weekly

'a most welcome addition to the mystery ranks... A deft way of completely surprising the reader' - Long Beach Independent Press

'In the best British mystery tradition' - Buffalo Evening News

'In the best Agatha Christie tradition' - Argosy

THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIES
Book One: Death of an Old Girl
Book Two: The Affacombe Affair
Book Three: Alibi for a Corpse
Book Four: Death on Doomsday
Book Five: Cyanide With Compliments
Book Six: No Vacation From Murder
Book Seven: Buried in the Past
Book Eight: Step in the Dark
Book Nine: Unhappy Returns
Book Ten: Suddenly While Gardening
Book Eleven: Change for the Worse
Book Twelve: Nothing to Do with the Case
Book Thirteen: Troubled Waters
Book Fourteen: The Wheel Turns
Book Fifteen: Light Through Glass
Book Sixteen: Who Goes Home?
Book Seventeen: The Glade Manor Murder