Dying in the Wool

Dying in the Wool by Frances Brody

Kate, who's husband is missing and presumed dead in WW1, has a knack for finding people, but when asked to find her friend's father in a sleepy little village, who disappeared 7 years ago, she discovers that not everyone is who they seem and some of them are downright dangerous!

As her investigations continue into finding the whereabouts of Joshua Braithwaite, an aggressive, narrow-minded womanizer who was also the pillar of the local chapel, she questions his wife, Evelyn who was not sorry to see the back of him; Tabitha, his daughter, who blamed herself for not being there when he disappeared; Hector, Tabitha's fiance, who knew more than he admitted; as well as many others who have their own reasons for being glad that he was gone.

When someone is murdered at the mill, Kate sets out to find out whether there was any connection to Joshua's disappearance or if it was just a coincidence.

This is an old-fashioned mystery, set in the 1920's. The book was a little slow throughout and I had a little bit of hard time plowing through to the end.