Title: Grim Pickings (Verity Birdwood, #1)
Description: The old crowd had gathered at Aunt Alice's once again - to pick apples against a chilly orchard setting. Beneath the surface were the usual boiling jealousies, frustrations and uneasy gaps between the generations and in-laws. Or was there something different about this year?
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Birdwood, verity (fictitious character), fiction, Australia, fiction