A Slip in the Dark

A nagging cold case
A cast of suspects
Will Tiggy and Raider get too involved?

When mystery author Tiggy Jones agrees to interview the locals to collect their anecdotes for a book about a once-grand house, she visits the derelict property early one evening and sees a light in an upstairs window. Then a woman’s face. Just an opportunistic intruder?

The interviews begin and are quickly overwhelmed by an avalanche of superstitions and rumours. Clues and secrets from past and present become more and more entangled.

Eighteen years ago, the last owner fell down the back stairs to her death. Or was she pushed? The inquest was postponed without a conclusive finding and the house has been abandoned and allowed to crumble.

Why was the inquest never re-opened and the cause of death left unresolved?

Who was the woman at the window and what had she put in her tote bags before she ran away?

Was the owner’s fall an unfortunate accident or do rumours about her mysterious business point to a motive for murder?

As Tiggy and her dog Raider are joined by their neurodiverse sidekick Baxter, they are drawn into investigating the cold case.

Will they finally solve an eighteen-year-old mystery and lay a ghost to rest?

Or is there a murderer at large who’ll do anything not to get caught?

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A Slip in the Dark is the fifth book in the addictive Tiggy Jones Mystery Series which A Scrap of Silk, A Missing Signature, A Deadly Concoction and A Trace of DNA.