The Grasse Grudge

Simmy and Christopher return to the Lakes District after a week's holiday abroad. But the holiday feeling does not last long when a business associate of Christopher asks for his help. When Christopher discovers Jonathan's body, Christopher becomes the main suspect. Simmy works with her friends, Ben and Bonnie, to solve the crime and clear her fiance's name, but there is the feeling that he has not told them the full story.

The Grasmere Grudge by Rebecca Tope is set in England's Lake District. One of the features of this series of books (this is number 8 in the Lake District Mysteries) is the descriptions of locations within the Lake District, many that we visited in 2011. 

In this book it soon becomes obvious that many people hold a grudge against the murdered man and are not sorry that he is dead. Although the book is easy to read, events in the plot appear to become confused and after a time some of the characters become annoying. It is not a bad book but not one of the best cosy mysteries that I have read.