The trip of a lifetime is the last one he ever took...

Things take a disastrous turn for American tourist Edward Tuke when he travels to the little village of Woodcombe to trace his English heritage.

He sets out to view a local landmark ... and turns up dead.

It seems vandals removed the warning signs at the entrance to a broken bridge and Edward drowned in the river.

But when the local police force get an anonymous tip-off crying murder, they start to think the vandalism may have been premeditated...

They call in Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent Pollard and Detective Inspector Toye for help.

What was Edward's family link to Woodcombe? Did anyone in the village have a reason to harm him?

And was his fall more than an accident...?

Troubled Waters is the thirteenth cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England.

'Lemarchand's suspects are classically genteel, her detectives refreshingly human, and her mystery plot satisfying' - Boston Sunday Globe

'well worth seeking out' - St Louis Post-Dispatch

'a masterful story' - Norfolk Virginia-Pilot

'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