After playing a TV sleuth for years, Rita Martin retires to the sleepy town of Frantham-on-Sea. Here on the Dorset coast, she runs her own immaculate guest house, and life is blissfully quiet. But then a few doors down, harmless old Mrs Freer is bludgeoned to death, and Rina can't help but be drawn into the mystery. Mrs Freer's home was ransacked, but this was no ordinary burglary. Who knew the old lady kept a gun stashed under her pillow? And who wanted it badly enough to kill? Detective Sebastian McGregor is called in to solve this baffling case. But with her neighbors' safety at stake, Rina knows she needs to give him a helping hand. This enchanting character-driven mystery was originally published as A Reason to Kill.