Publisher's Synopsis
Following a string of disastrous house-sitting assignments, Thea Osborne is understandably apprehensive about her latest commission: a wintry month in an isolated farmhouse with an assortment of animals. Thea spends her first few days exploring the tiny hamlet of Hampnett but then the weather turns extreme, and so do events. When she stumbles across a man lying dead in the snow-filled field, Thea is once again at the heart of a mystery in the gorgeous Cotswold countryside ..