A wry, macabre tale of simple country living, brutal murder, and a reasonably happy couple, from our "most startlingly offbeat suspense novelist" (Gore Vidal). In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as "the girls"--a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop specializing in the work of local artisans and farmers, they lead an enviable, enviably settled...