A Pretty Place for a Murder — Roy Hart

A LOVELY CORPSE

Vera Jackman was a lively young woman--daring enough to pose nude for a local artist, ambitious enough to have big plans for leaving the quaint village of Cort Abbas. Then her plans--and her life--came to a violent end.

But Vera carried a secret to her grave: she was pregnant. She also had a lot of cash stashed away much more than a barmaid could possibly earn.

The convenient suicide of a local lad and his note but closes the case. Yet Superintendent Roper believes something dark and dirty lurks beneath the tidy surface--and Cort Abbas is too small to hide a murderer for long.