A Bookish Disappearance: a gripping English cozy mystery full of twists (The Chiltern Hills Mysteries Book 7)

Rona Parish is a biographer living in Marsborough, a market town in England's Chiltern Hills, who has a talent for uncovering murder and mystery. She is accompanied by Gus, her Golden Retriever. Rona is married to illustrator Max but maintains her independence and maiden name, using weekdays to write and investigate undisturbed. When the sister of artist Elspeth Wilding calls asking Rona to investigate Elspeth's sudden disappearance from her remote cottage, Rona becomes involved. Elspeth has left a half-finished masterpiece on her easel. However, Elspeth was not well-liked—she drove her best friend to suicide, and few people have anything positive to say about her. When a dead body is discovered in Elspeth's abandoned studio, the case becomes more complex. Rona must work to uncover what happened before the killer strikes again. This is the seventh book in the Chiltern Hills Mysteries series. The book was previously published as Unfinished Portrait.