Playing For The Ashes seventh in Inspector Lynley series

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Delivering milk to Gabriella Patten at Celandine Cottage on a sunny April morning; Martin Snell cannot help noticing that something isn't quite right. The gate is off the latch for a start. Peering into the cottage; he sees the blackened armchair; the smoke-stained walls; and immediately telephones the police. But when the body is found it isn't Mrs Patten. It is Kenneth Fleming; England's star batsman; dead of asphyxiation; dead because someone wanted him to die. When Scotland Yard is called in by the local police force; Inspector Lynley and Detective Sergeant Havers are surprised to find themselves confronted by an almost embarrassing multitude of suspects; from Gabriella to the dead man's teenage son. Nearly everyone with whom Fleming was in contact seems to have a motive for murder - and most of them also seem to have had the opportunity.