An early Miss Marple, the character is rather less endearing then she became on screen. This is pretty quick and entertaining, but has a surprisingly comic tone for the fact that the crimes are so grisly.

Update 9/24
Sometimes it pays to have dead braincells, as I forgot the plot of this as I listened to the audiobook, well narrated by Stephanie Cole. I thought, this is a bit grisly, and sure enough, that's exactly what my larger amount of braincells thought five and half years ago...