Ann Granger: Say it with Poison (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
When Meredith Mitchell agreed to stay with her actress cousin Eve in the run-up to Eve's daughter's wedding she anticipated a degree of drama. But she hardly expected it to include murder, blackmail and unrequited love. Or to involve a certain Chief Inspector Markby, a middle-aged divorcee with an emotional history as unfortunate as her own.

A material witness to the only case of murder the Cotswold village of Westerfield has ever seen, Meredith also finds herself acting as mother-confessor to the bride-to-be, who is clearly not telling the whole truth about her involvement with the dead man. Steering a path between her duty to the police and loyalty to her cousin's family is not easy; even for someone with Meredith's considerable diplomatic skills. And especially as her personal enquiries into events in Westerfield start to disinter past affections Meredith would far rather leave buried - and to provoke new ones she's not at all sure she can cope with...

Ann Granger: Say it with Poison. A Mitchell & Markby Mystery. Headline, ISBN: 9780755377145 (March, 2012), 1075 KB (292 p.), £5.99.

Ann Granger: Say it with Poison (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
When Meredith Mitchell agreed to stay with her actress cousin Eve in the run-up to Eve's daughter's wedding she anticipated a degree of drama. But she hardly expected it to include murder, blackmail and unrequited love. Or to involve a certain Chief Inspector Markby, a middle-aged divorcee with an emotional history as unfortunate as her own.

A material witness to the only case of murder the Cotswold village of Westerfield has ever seen, Meredith also finds herself acting as mother-confessor to the bride-to-be, who is clearly not telling the whole truth about her involvement with the dead man. Steering a path between her duty to the police and loyalty to her cousin's family is not easy; even for someone with Meredith's considerable diplomatic skills. And especially as her personal enquiries into events in Westerfield start to disinter past affections Meredith would far rather leave buried - and to provoke new ones she's not at all sure she can cope with...

Ann Granger: Say it with Poison. A Mitchell & Markby Mystery. Headline, ISBN: 9780747237068 (April, 1998), 224 p., £6.99.

Ann Granger: Say it with Poison (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
MARRIAGE, MYSTERY, AND MURDER
The wedding of her godchild Sara is reason enough for Foreign Service Consul Meredith Mitchell to return to England to stay with her cousin, Eve Owens, glamorous film star and mother of the bride. When Meredith arrives at Eve's country home she never expects to share center stage in a real-life drama that will rock the peaceful little Cotswold village to its core.

But a bloody ox heart, a dead cat, and a bit of poison turn the prenuptial planning into a police investigation, and Meredith becomes a material witness. Playing amateur sleuth, she's soon making her own inquiries--and using all her diplomatic skills to steer a path between loyalty to her cousin's family and her responsibility to Chief Inspector Markby, with whom she's developing a more than casual relationship. Yet it's finding the roots of the crime in her own family tree that leads Meredith to the discovery of how scandal, blackmail, and unrequited love play a part in changing a plot of love and marriage into a melodrama of mystery and murder.

Ann Granger: Say it with Poison. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380718235 (April, 1993), 224 p., $4.50.

Ann Granger: Say it with Poison (UK 1991)

From the Publisher:
The wedding of her godchild Sara is reason enough for Foreign Service Consul Meredith Mitchell to return to England to stay with her cousin, Eve Owens, glamorous film star and mother of the bride. When Meredith arrives at Eve's country home she never expects to share centre stage in a real-life drama that will rock the peaceful little Cotswold village to its core. But a bloody ox heart, a dead cat, and a bit of poison turn the prenuptial planning into a police investigation, and Meredith become a material witness. Playing amateur sleuth, she's soon making her own inquiries - and using all her diplomatic skills to steer a path between loyalty to her cousin's family and her responsibility to Chief Inspector Markby, with whom she's developing a more than casual relationship. Yet it's finding the roots of the crime in her own family tree that leads Meredith to the discovery of how scandal, blackmail, and unrequited love play a part in changing a plot of love and marriage into a melodrama of mystery and murder.

Ann Granger: Say it with Poison. Headline, ISBN: 0747237069 (September, 1991), 224 p., £4.99 (?).