MITCHELL, Kay - A Lively Form of Death - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

Book and wrapper still good even though it belonged to a library before   >>>   A LIVELY FORM OF DEATH, Kay Mitchell (Sarah Lacey), 1990   -   First in the Chief Inspector Morrissey series. Morrissey is called into a small village when the local gossip is murdered, apparently from poisoned milk. However, it seems she had stolen the milk from her employer, an attractive single woman who seems to have a great many boyfriends. A very good police procedural with well-developed characters. I enjoyed the interaction between Morrissey and his sergeant, Neil Barrett, and appreciated that his attraction to the woman thought to be the actual target bothered him, and had him questioning his own thought processes. There are five books in the series, and I hope to find the others to read.  Recommended.