Cheerful retiree and amateur sleuth Hazel Hausswolff receives a free ticket to a murder-mystery evening at the historic Treasurer’s House in the grounds of York Minster.

The only catch is that she won’t make it past dinnertime… because she’s playing the corpse.

Soon Hazel has bigger problems than a difficult-to-burst packet of fake blood. When an honest-to-goodness corpse is discovered, she finds herself at the centre of a real murder mystery. Worse still, the guests are trapped in the Treasurer’s House with the killer, who seems determined to pick them off one at a time.

Who can Hazel Hausswolff trust?

What links the guests to each other, and to their murder-mystery characters?

Will Hazel make it home in time to watch The Apprentice?

The first book in the York Murders series, which features York landmarks, cold-blooded murder and a warm-hearted amateur detective.