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  To my family for setting the bar for relationships very high

  Debbie Young

  About the Author

  Debbie Young writes warm, witty, feel-good fiction.

  Her Sophie Sayers Village Mystery series of seven novels runs the course of a year in the fictional Cotswold village of Wendlebury Barrow.

  Her humorous short stories are available in themed collections, such as Marry in Haste, Quick Change and Stocking Fillers, and in many anthologies.

  She is a frequent speaker at literature festivals and writers’ events and is founder and director of the free Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival.

  A regular contributor to two local community magazines, the award-winning Tetbury Advertiser and the Hawkesbury Parish News, she has published two collections of her columns, Young by Name and All Part of the Charm. These publications offer insight into her own life in a small Cotswold village where she lives with her Scottish husband and their teenage daughter.

  For the latest information about Debbie’s books and events, visit her Writing Life website, where you may also like to join her free Readers’ Club at her website: www.authordebbieyoung.com

  Also by Debbie Young

  Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries

  Best Murder in Show (1)

  Trick or Murder? (2)

  Murder in the Manger (3)

  Murder by the Book (4)

  Coming soon:

  Murder Your Darlings (6)

  Murder Lost and Found(7)

  Short Story Collections

  Marry in Haste

  Quick Change

  Stocking Fillers

  Essay Collections

  All Part of the Charm: A Modern Memoir of English Village Life

  Young By Name: Whimsical Columns from the Tetbury Advertiser

  Copyright Information

  SPRINGTIME FOR MURDER

  by Debbie Young

  © Debbie Young 2018

  Published by Hawkesbury Press 2018

  Hawkesbury Upton, Gloucestershire, England

  Cover design by Rachel Lawston of Lawston Design

  All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

  This is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and situations within its pages and places or persons, living or dead, is unintentional and coincidental.

  ISBN (paperback) 978 1 911 223 344

  ISBN (ebook) 9718 1 911 223 337