num_pages: 261
description: Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething below the picture-postcard prettiness. In the grand tradition of the quietly intelligent copper, Barnaby has both an irresistibly dry sense of humor and a keen insight into what makes people tick.
language: English
title: The Killings at Badger's Drift
titlecomplete: The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1)
characters: Tom Barnaby, Gavin Troy
genres: Cozy Mystery, British Literature, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 10631
places: Badger's Drift
series: Chief Inspector Barnaby
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best First Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Felony & Mayhem