Date with Poison

Published
May 2019
Publishers
UK
Macmillan
Denmark
People's Press
Finland
Gummerus
France
Laffont
Germany
Bastei Lübbe
Drop by drop Bruncliffe is turning toxic…
Spring is in the air in Bruncliffe but not everyone is filled with the joys of the season.
Samson O’Brien of the Dales Detective Agency is being questioned by the police about a murder, with the truth about his policing past about to be brutally exposed. And with Bruncliffe turning on Samson, his business partner Delilah Metcalfe finds herself in the impossible position of defending him to her friends and family.
Then Delilah’s nephew, accused of being under Samson’s influence, runs away from home and a frantic search begins. And with attention turning to Nathan, only a local vet is paying attention to a worrying spate of canine poisonings happening throughout the village.
Bruncliffe is turning toxic and with suspicion raining down on him, Samson knows he has to ask Delilah for help. Can she forgive his transgressions and help him out so that they can Nathan and the poisoner, or has the poison already spread too far?
Date with Poison is the brilliant fourth novel in Julia Chapman’s Dales Detective Agency series, and is perfect of fans of MC Beaton’s Agatha Raisin series and Gervase Phinn.