"May 1939. When Amy Rowlings and Inspector Bodkin are invited to a black-tie civic awards ceremony at the Town Hall, they expect to be met with the usual boring speeches and toe-curling sycophancy, but when the recipient of the night's 'Businessman Of The Year Award', Nelson Kelly, is found stabbed to death after being called from the stage to answer the telephone, the evening begins to liven up. Nelson's company has just won a lucrative contract to build a new armaments factory and many of the town's elite, having backed a rival bidder, aren't happy at missing out. When the CID department at the local police station is suddenly reduced in manpower, Bodkin is told he will have to manage the murder investigation alone. Into the breach steps young Amy Rowlings, the 21-year-old with a mind every bit as sharp as her fictional hero, Hercule Poirot. Amy, an avid crime fiction reader, movie buff and collector of American records, brings her insight and intelligence to the aid of the overstretched inspector as he attempts to find a way through the morass of lies, deception and corruption. Once again, Amy must utilise all the investigative techniques she has learned from Agatha Christie's famous detective to help bring a brutal killer to justice."
"Sunday morning, and the body of Reverend Villiers has been found propped up on the vigil seat in the church's lychgate. It appears that he has been poisoned. When amateur sleuth and regular churchgoer Amy Rowlings arrives she finds DI Bodkin already at the scene. Bodkin tells her about a cryptic scripture reference that has been scrawled in chalk on the stone slabs beneath the body. What the citation hints at, shocks everyone. Amy, a huge Agatha Christie fan, is determined to get involved in the investigation and despite a stern warning from the detective's boss, Amy and Bodkin team up again to try to solve the most complex murder case he has ever been involved in."
"January 1939. When young Amy Rowlings meets Detective Sergeant Bodkin at the scene of a robbery on the way to work at The Mill, she is blissfully unaware of how much her life is about to change. She is drawn into the murky world of murder when the body of Edward Handsley is found lying on the floor of the factory. Edward, a libertine, philanderer, the son of the factory owner George, a young man with many enemies, many of them female. Bodkin is new to the area and Amy soon becomes an invaluable source of information. But when a family friend, Adam Smethwick, is arrested, Amy sets out to prove his innocence. Amy's burgeoning relationship with Bodkin is pushed to the limits as the detective becomes even more convinced that he has arrested the right man . . ."
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