Ann Purser's sixth mystery, "Secrets on Saturday," again stars Lois Meade, owner of a cleaning brigade in a small English village and part-time sleuth.
When Lois is asked to take on the cleaning of a local elderly man's cottage by his nephew, she is immediately suspicious when the information the nephew gave her to contact him is false. Also, the gentleman in question has always seemed healthy out walking his little dog so why (according to his nephew) is he now in need of care and been placed somewhere but no one seems to know where?
There's also badger baiting as well as fraud out and about in the village but Lois is reluctant to share what she knows with her old friend and ally, Chief Inspector Hunter Cowgill, for a couple of reasons - Cowgill's wife has just died in an accident and Lois' husband doesn't want her doing any more sleuthing -- especially with or at the behest of Cowgill.
However, Lois already seems to be attracting some unwanted attention without trying and she and some of her cleaners have actually felt threatened. Can she leave it alone?
This is a more complicated mystery than I remember from the other Lois Meade mysteries and I really didn't have a clue what was going on most of the time so the ending came as a surprise to me, too! pazt
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