TY - BOOK AU - Tope,Rebecca TI - Slaughter in the Cotswolds SN - 9780749079444 (hbk.) U1 - 823.92 22 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Allison & Busby KW - Osborne, Thea (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Housesitting KW - England KW - Cotswold Hills KW - Detective and mystery stories N1 - Formerly CIP N2 - CRIME & MYSTERY. Thea throws herself into house-sitting for Babs and Cedric Angell in Lower Slaughter following her beloved father's death - anything to keep her busy and away from some of her rather difficult relatives. And while feeling lonely, keeping the house in order and looking after the Angell's menagerie of animals does the trick for a short period of time. But when Thea's prickly elder sister turns up on her doorstep after witnessing a horrific murder, the tentative tranquillity in Lower Slaughter vanishes, replaced by the sinister connotations of the town's name ER -