The Beauty of Murder Jeffrey Archer and a sleepy English village

and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch

soon Danny has to join his father as they attempt to pull off a daring and devilish plot against horrible

Kinseys on the point of giving up

a cloud of corruption

which reveals the stagnant state of our oldest British colonies and contrasts it with the more sophisticated squalor of their French neighbour

The Beauty of Murder Jeffrey Archer and a sleepy English villageStephen Killigan has been cold since the day he came to Cambridge as a junior lecturer. Something about the seven hundred years of history staining the stones of the university has given him a chill he can't shake. When he stumbles across the body of a missing beauty queen, he thinks he's found the reason. But when the police go to retrieve the body and find no trace, Killigan has found a problem and a killer that is the very opposite of reason.