False Impression

Widow turned reluctant amateur sleuth Bea Abbot finds her house and domestic agency under siege in the ninth book in the Abbot Agency cozy mystery series.

Bea Abbot's friend Leon Holland asks for her help to establish an alibi. But why does he need one? And is his life really in danger, as events seem to suggest? Then everything is thrown into chaos as a virus infects the Abbot Agency's systems ... deliberately. But why? Bea is about to find herself drawn into a vicious - and deadly - power struggle.

An Abbot Agency mystery
Bea Abbot’s friend Leon Holland has asked for her help in establishing an alibi. But why would he need one? First, he tells her, he had a narrow escape from being run down in the road, and then he was lured with a mysterious message to a car park to meet someone who didn’t turn up.
Matters escalate when two bodies are found in the car park, slumped over their steering wheels, stabbed to death.
Then everything is thrown into chaos as a devastating virus infects the agency’s systems. A hidden camera. Hate mail. A nasty practical joke. It’s clear that the Abbott Agency has been targeted. But why? And where is it leading?
Bea is about to find herself drawn into a vicious power struggle involving greed, envy, ambition and tangled family relationships.