One bad turn deserves another...

Basil Railsdon is on his way to becoming Conservative MP for the village of Loxford. A wealthy widower, he is also about to make an exemplary second marriage to elegant socialite, Henrietta Legge.

But then a freak accident changes everything. And suddenly the life Basil had planned seems to be on the edge of ruin.

Things are complicated further by the arrival of a half-sister Basil had never known about.

And when his newly-discovered sister, Laura, is found dead on his property, Basil's prospects take a turn for the worse.

Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent Pollard and Detective Inspector Toye are called in to investigate Laura's death.

Was it a freak accident? Or is Basil now a murder suspect?

And how is this death connected to the disappearance of a local girl...?

The Wheel Turns is the fourteenth cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England.

'an intricately plotted tale' - Publishers Weekly

'a top-notch British murder mystery' - Houston Post

'Convincing plot, well developed characters ... the best of Lemarchand' - Kirkus Reviews

'First-rate suspense' - Library Journal

'In the best Agatha Christie tradition' - Argosy

THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIES
Book One: Death of an Old Girl
Book Two: The Affacombe Affair
Book Three: Alibi for a Corpse
Book Four: Death on Doomsday
Book Five: Cyanide With Compliments
Book Six: No Vacation From Murder
Book Seven: Buried in the Past
Book Eight: Step in the Dark
Book Nine: Unhappy Returns
Book Ten: Suddenly While Gardening
Book Eleven: Change for the Worse
Book Twelve: Nothing to Do with the Case
Book Thirteen: Troubled Waters
Book Fourteen: The Wheel Turns
Book Fifteen: Light Through the Glass
Book Sixteen: Who Goes Home?
Book Seventeen: The Glade Manor Murder