Over My Dead Body — Claire Lorrimer

Millers Lane is a typical English country lane: ten households forming a peaceful, if mundane, little community. A delightfully tranquil village that seems a lovely place to live, with a perfect environment for newlyweds lan and Migs Peters in which to raise their newborn son. A small dispute over the resurfacing and widening of their lane surely cannot cause too much discomfort in such an idyllic setting? But the history has its place in such a firmly established community, and change comes at a price, particularly for certain inhabitants. There are also tensions and personal ambitions brewing beneath the surface, and when the apparently normal dispute suddenly turns nasty, the seething resentments and violent passions are waiting to erupt with dire consequences...