Summer’s Lease - John Mortimer

It’s high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners and things start to go horribly wrong. With a cosy fluency of wit, Mortimer charms us into his urbane tangle of clues Mail on Sunday.