Originally published as Forgotten Voices.

Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving.

She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real.

On a bright September day, mother-of-two Ellen Tailor is shot dead while making dinner in her idyllic farmhouse kitchen.

Rina and her policeman friend Mac cannot understand how kindly, popular Ellen could have met with such a violent death in this peaceful, close-knit community.

But all is not as it seems at pretty Low Ridge Farm. Ellen was struggling to make ends meet. Her interfering mother-in-law controls the family with an iron fist. And Ellen’s creepy ex-boyfriend had recently turned up.

As Rina and Mac question Ellen’s family and friends, another local resident meets a sudden end.

Is there a killer on the loose among these gentle farming folk . . . ?

With a little help from Rina, the community must rally round to uncover the murderer in their midst.