As if a home with a terminally ill woman isn't enough without adding murder to the mix.

Emma is helping her friends at neighbouring Nettifield when visitors arrive. Tension between family members is immediately apparent, but when a body is found in the stable some want to mark it an accident. Emma is charged by the dying woman with finding out what happened. Her questions raise ire and opposition, while everyone seems to have had opportunity and motive. Are family more deadly than strangers? And will she ever be welcome at Nettifield again?

Novella prequel to the Emma Berry Murray River Mystery series.

"Thoroughly enjoyable. A glimpse of Australia in bygone times. A lovely mystery thrown in to complete the story. The author pulls you right in and keeps you there " Amazon Kindle Customer, 2017