Fire in the Thatch

This enjoyable Golden Age-ish novel by ECR Lorac slowly sets up the scene in a cosy rural setting in Devon at the end of the Second World War. 

A recently discharged Royal Navy man takes over a neglected cottage and aims to become a market gardener. He makes friends with the locals and all seems to be going well...

Then we jump straight into a police procedural after the crime has taken place. The investigation is nicely complicated and involves investigating into the secrets of the victim's past to establish a motive and hence identify the perpetrator. 

A good read.